"The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep — The storm is in my soul."
"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."
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Source: Helen Maria Williams (1791). “Poems”, p.71
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