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Because when he sits down to write he does it with might and main,

Archive 2008-06-01 2008
Steering their rough course o'er this boisterous main,

Iphigenia in Tauris 2008
Enow of severance tasted I to own its might and main,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006
Steering their rough course o'er this boisterous main,

Iphigenia in Tauris 2008
Though tempests rage, though rolls the swelling main,

The Odyssey of Homer 2003
Where, if they yield their freight across the main,

The Odyssey of Homer 2003
No more I'll be a sail-y-or to sail the raging main,

The Cruise of the Calabar 1999
Where broad rivers roll down their tides to the main,

Groves of Kilteevan 1999
Hoa! scoop her and bale her, &c. Learn hence when you're drinking, ye bucks of the main,

Commodore Gale 1998
Footprints that perhaps another sailing on life's solemn main,

Remarks At Millennium Lecture Series ITY National Archives 1998