The bow guard was watching the other boat as it floated among several fishing boats waiting for the bridge to open.

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Your twitchings and jouncings disturb me excessively.

When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.