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see a problem roughly similar to yours.
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The boy stood on the burning deck
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because no space was available in lifeboats.
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Obviously the ship was not the Titanic.
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Fire, not ice, was the danger here.
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But there was plenty of water around.
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Water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.
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[Coleridge used 'water' twice, which makes eight.]
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But he was not playing this game.
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Coleridge wrote Rime while walking with Wordsworth.
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This was in the Lake District, where
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a lycanthrope, swimming out of his depth,
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encountered a snake, known locally as bownessie.
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related to the octothorpe, not the lycanthrope..
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"Unlikely story", complained Alice to Humpty Dumpty.
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