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Supposed to have been written under the Ruins of	A
Rufus's Castle among the remains of the ancient	B
Church on the Isle of Portland	C
CHAOTIC pile of barren stone	D
That Nature's hurrying hand has thrown	D
Half finish'd from the troubled waves	E
On whose rude brow the rifted tower	F
Has frown'd through many a stormy hour	F
On this drear site of tempest beaten graves	E
Sure Desolation loves to shroud	G
His giant form within the cloud	G
That hovers round thy rugged head	H
And as through broken vaults beneath	I
The future storms low muttering breathe	J
Hears the complaining voices of the dead	H
Here marks the fiend with eager eyes	K
Far out at sea the fogs arise	K
That dimly shade the beacon'd strand	L
And listens the portentous roar	M
Of sullen waves as on the shore	M
Monotonous they burst and tell the storm at hand	L
Northward the demon's eyes are cast	N
O'er yonder bare and sterile waste	O
Where born to hew and heave the block	P
Man lost in ignorance and toil	Q
Becomes associate to the soil	Q
And his heart hardens like his native rock	P
	-
On the bleak hills with flint o'erspread	O
No blossoms rear the purple head	O
No shrub perfumes the zephyrs' breath	R
But o'er the cold and cheerless down	S
Grim desolation seems to frown	S
Blasting the ungrateful soil with partial death	R
Here the scathed trees with leaves half dress'd	O
Shade no soft songster's secret nest	O
Whose spring notes soothe the pensive ear	T
But high the croaking cormorant flies	K
And mews and hawks with clamorous cries	K
Tire the lone echoes of these caverns drear	T
Perchance among the ruins grey	T
Some widow'd mourner loves to stray	T
Marking the melancholy main	U
Where once afar she could discern	V
O'er the white waves his sail return	V
Who never never now returns again	W
On these lone tombs by storms up torn	X
The hopeless wretch may lingering mourn	X
Till from the ocean rising red	O
The misty moon with lurid ray	T
Lights her reluctant on her way	T
To steep in tears her solitary bed	O
Hence the dire spirit oft surveys	Y
The ship that to the western bays	Y
With favouring gales pursues its course	Z
Then calls the vapour dark that blinds	A2
The pilot calls the felon winds	B2
That heave the billows with resistless force	Z
Commixing with the blotted skies	K
High and more high the wild waves rise	K
Till as impetuous torrents urge	C2
Driven on yon fatal bank accursed	O
The vessel's massy timbers burst	O
And the crew sinks beneath the infuriate surge	C2
There find the weak an early grave	D2
While youthful strength the whelming wave	D2
Repels and labouring for the land	O
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With shorten'd breath and upturn'd eyes	K
Sees the rough shore above him rise	K
Nor dreams that rapine meets him on the strand	O
And are there then in human form	E2
Monsters more savage than the storm	E2
Who from the gasping sufferer tear	T
The dripping weed who dare to reap	F2
The inhuman harvest of the deep	F2
From half drown'd victims whom the tempests spare	T
Ah yes by avarice once possess'd	O
No pity moves the rustic breast	O
Callous he proves as those who haply wait	O
Till I a pilgrim weary worn	X
To my own native land return	V
With legal toils to drag me to my fate	O

Charlotte Smith

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