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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Having witnessed both rough seas and turbulent women, the speaker weighs the two and concludes that lovers deserve more sympathy than sailors. The joke is that emotional storms of romance seem harder to survive than the ocean's, with a rueful, teasing tone.
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