Wednesday, October 30, 2024

He fell off the boat mid ocean

 


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  1. Movie about getting stranded in open water after being left but a scuba excursion. Has happened in the Caribbean and off Australia I am fairly sure.

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  2. Wash'd headlong from on board,
    Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
    His floating home for ever left.

    His comrades, who before
    Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast.
    Could catch the sound no more:
    For then, by toil subdued, he drank
    The stifling wave, and then he sank.

    No poet wept him; but the page
    Of narrative sincere,
    That tells his name, his worth, his age,
    Is wet with Anson's tear

    -William Cowper, "The Castaway"

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