Pronunciation of the English word astern.
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1. | While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern. | |
2. | We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. | |
3. | Full astern! | |
4. | Half astern! | |
5. | Slow astern! | |
6. | Dead slow astern! |