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  • Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
    Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
    Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
    Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
    Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

    Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.686