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<description><![CDATA[Howdy--I'm doing more work on parodistic hymns and my eye was drawn to a (possible) fairly early example in Enoch Mudge's "The American Camp-Meeting Hymn Book: Containing a Variety of Original Hymns, Suitable to be Used at Camp-Meetings, and at Other Times in Private and Social Devotions" (Boston: Joseph Burdakin, 1818), no. 120. Mudge (who wrote all the lyrics in this songster) titles the hymn "The Mariner's Song parodied," but from a structural perspective it seems unlikely to that this text is actually a direct parody of a preexisting one. Does the opening stanza--

The mariner on ocean borne,
His reck'ning lost, his canvas torn;
Darkness and storms involve the sky,
He waits the morn with anxious eye

--ring a bell to any of my colleagues more versed in secular song (or poetry)? 
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