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'Tts sunset; to the firmament serene
The Atlantic wave nfiect.e a gorgeoua ltOelle;
:Broad in the cloudle1111 west, a belt of gold
Gird• the blue hemiaphere ; above unroll'd
The keen clear air grows pAlpable to aight,
Embodied in a ftush of crillliOn light,
Through which the evening-star, with milder gl~m,
Deacende to meet-her imAge in the stream.
MoNTOO~BT.How cAlm,
How awfnl calm they shine-unmoved, untouched,
Amid the tempeata of poor huma.n thought I
There they be.ve watched this weary earth grow old,
And still they uea.m as fair as at the first,
Iu all their radiant youth I Still they keep watch
O'er the great march of life, aud time, and cha.Dge,
And even o'er me they bend! .A4a, alas!
Meek, silent witnesses of sin and shame,
How macb do tuey enclare to look upou I
Now, in the byewaya of the lonely night,
Love wandem with her one child, Misery,
And caunot aee the heavens through her te&N.
Mo&ning, abe wanden with slow fainting steps,
And bends her dying eyea upon the ground
To find a welcome grave.--·~
it be ®ttan.
·'Rot.t. on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll!
Ten tbo118l\nd fteete sweep over thee in vain ;
Man marks tbe earth with ruin-his control
BtQpa wiL11 tl.te sbo1-e ;-upon the watery plnin
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remam
A shadow of man's ravage. save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of n.in,
He sinks iuto t.h,y depth.! with bubbling groan,
Without a gran, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
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