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ON thy stupendous summit rock sublime	A
That o'er the channel rear'd half way at sea	B
The mariner at early morning hails	C
I would recline while Fancy should go forth	D
And represent the strange and awful hour	E
Of vast concussion when the Omnipotent	F
Stretch'd forth his arm and rent the solid hills	G
Bidding the impetuous main flood rush between	H
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The rifted shores and from the continent	F
Eternally divided this green isle	I
Imperial lord of the high southern coast	J
From thy projecting head land I would mark	K
Far in the east the shades of night disperse	L
Melting and thinned as from the dark blue wave	M
Emerging brilliant rays of arrowy light	N
Dart from the horizon when the glorious sun	O
Just lifts above it his resplendent orb	P
Advances now with feathery silver touched	Q
The rippling tide of flood glisten the sands	R
While inmates of the chalky clefts that scar	S
Thy sides precipitous with shrill harsh cry	T
Their white wings glancing in the level beam	U
The terns and gulls and tarrocks seek their food	V
And thy rough hollows echo to the voice	W
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Of the gray choughs and ever restless daws	X
With clamour not unlike the chiding hounds	Y
While the lone shepherd and his baying dog	Z
Drive to thy turfy crest his bleating flock	A2
The high meridian of the day is past	B2
And Ocean now reflecting the calm Heaven	O
Is of cerulean hue and murmurs low	C2
The tide of ebb upon the level sands	R
The sloop her angular canvas shifting still	D2
Catches the light and variable airs	E2
That but a little crisp the summer sea	B
Dimpling its tranquil surface	F2
Afar off	G2
And just emerging from the arch immense	H2
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Where seem to part the elements a fleet	I2
Of fishing vessels stretch their lesser sails	C
While more remote and like a dubious spot	J2
Just hanging in the horizon laden deep	K2
The ship of commerce richly freighted makes	L2
Her slower progress on her distant voyage	M2
Bound to the orient climates where the sun	O
Matures the spice within its odorous shell	N2
And rivalling the gray worm's filmy toil	O2
Bursts from its pod the vegetable down	P2
Which in long turban'd wreaths from torrid heat	I2
Defends the brows of Asia's countless casts	Q2
There the Earth hides within her glowing breast	R2
The beamy adamant and the round pearl	S2
Enchased in rugged covering which the slave	M
With perilous and breathless toil tears off	G2
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From the rough sea rock deep beneath the waves	T2
These are the toys of Nature and her sport	U2
Of little estimate in Reason's eye	T
And they who reason with abhorrence see	B
Man for such gaudes and baubles violate	V2
The sacred freedom of his fellow man	W2
Erroneous estimate As Heaven's pure air	X2
Fresh as it blows on this a rial height	N
Or sound of seas upon the stony strand	Y2
Or inland the gay harmony of birds	Z2
And winds that wander in the leafy woods	A3
Are to the unadulterate taste more worth	B3
Than the elaborate harmony brought out	C3
From fretted stop or modulated airs	E2
Of vocal science So the brightest gems	D3
Glancing resplendent on the regal crown	P2
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Or trembling in the high born beauty's ear	E3
Are poor and paltry to the lovely light	N
Of the fair star that as the day declines	F3
Attendant on her queen the crescent moon	G3
Bathes her bright tresses in the eastern wave	M
For now the sun is verging to the sea	B
And as he westward sinks the floating clouds	H3
Suspended move upon the evening gale	I3
And gathering round his orb as if to shade	J3
The insufferable brightness they resign	K3
Their gauzy whiteness and more warm'd assume	L3
All hues of purple There transparent gold	M3
Mingles with ruby tints and sapphire gleams	N3
And colours such as Nature through her works	O3
Shews only in the ethereal canopy	B
Thither aspiring Fancy fondly soars	P3
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Wandering sublime thro' visionary vales	C
Where bright pavilions rise and trophies fann'd	Y2
By airs celestial and adorn'd with wreaths	Q3
Of flowers that bloom amid elysian bowers	R3
Now bright and brighter still the colours glow	C2
Till half the lustrous orb within the flood	S3
Seems to retire the flood reflecting still	D2
Its splendor and in mimic glory drest	S3
Till the last ray shot upward fires the clouds	H3
With blazing crimson then in paler light	S3
Long lines of tenderer radiance lingering yield	S3
To partial darkness and on the opposing side	S3
The early moon distinctly rising throws	T3
Her pearly brilliance on the trembling tide	S3
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The fishermen who at set seasons pass	U3
Many a league off at sea their toiling night	S3
Now hail their comrades from their daily task	V3
Returning and make ready for their own	W3
With the night tide commencing The night tide	S3
Bears a dark vessel on whose hull and sails	C
Mark her a coaster from the north Her keel	X3
Now ploughs the sand and sidelong now she leans	Y3
While with loud clamours her athletic crew	Z3
Unload her and resounds the busy hum	A4
Along the wave worn rocks Yet more remote	S3
Where the rough cliff hangs beetling o'er its base	B4
All breathes repose the water's rippling sound	S3
Scarce heard but now and then the sea snipe's cry	T
Just tells that something living is abroad	S3
And sometimes crossing on the moonbright line	K3
	-
Glimmers the skiff faintly discern'd awhile	I
Then lost in shadow	S3
Contemplation here	E3
High on her throne of rock aloof may sit	S3
And bid recording Memory unfold	S3
Her scroll voluminous bid her retrace	B4
The period when from Neustria's hostile shore	C4
The Norman launch'd his galleys and the bay	D4
O'er which that mass of ruin frowns even now	E4
In vain and sullen menace then received	S3
The new invaders a proud martial race	B4
Of Scandinavia the undaunted sons	F4
Whom Dogon Fier a bras and Humfroi led	S3
To conquest while Trinacria to their power	E
Yielded her wheaten garland and when thou	E4
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Parthenope within thy fertile bay	D4
Receiv'd the victors	R3
In the mailed ranks	G4
Of Normans landing on the British coast	S3
Rode Taillefer and with astounding voice	W
Thunder'd the war song daring Roland sang	H4
First in the fierce contention vainly brave	M
One not inglorious struggle England made	S3
But failing saw the Saxon heptarchy	I4
Finish for ever Then the holy pile	I
Yet seen upon the field of conquest rose	T3
Where to appease heaven's wrath for so much blood	S3
The conqueror bade unceasing prayers ascend	S3
And requiems for the slayers and the slain	J4
But let not modern Gallia form from hence	H2
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Presumptuous hopes that ever thou again	K4
Queen of the isles shalt crouch to foreign arms	L4
The enervate sons of Italy may yield	S3
And the Iberian all his trophies torn	M4
And wrapp'd in Superstition's monkish weed	S3
May shelter his abasement and put on	N4
Degrading fetters Never never thou	E4
Imperial mistress of the obedient sea	B
But thou in thy integrity secure	O4
Shalt now undaunted meet a world in arms	L4
England 'twas where this promontory rears	P4
Its rugged brow above the channel wave	M
Parting the hostile nations that thy fame	Q4
Thy naval fame was tarnish'd at what time	A
Thou leagued with the Batavian gavest to France	R4
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One day of triumph triumph the more loud	S3
Because even then so rare Oh well redeem'd	S3
Since by a series of illustrious men	K4
Such as no other country ever rear'd	S3
To vindicate her cause It is a list	S3
Which as Fame echoes it blanches the cheek	S4
Of bold Ambition while the despot feels	T4
The extorted sceptre tremble in his grasp	U4
From even the proudest roll by glory fill'd	S3
How gladly the reflecting mind returns	V4
To simple scenes of peace and industry	B
Where bosom'd in some valley of the hills	G
Stands the lone farm its gate with tawny ricks	W4
Surrounded and with granaries and sheds	X4
Roof'd with green mosses and by elms and ash	I4
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Partially shaded and not far remov'd	S3
The hut of sea flints built the humble home	Y4
Of one who sometimes watches on the heights	Z4
When hid in the cold mist of passing clouds	H3
The flock with dripping fleeces are dispers'd	S3
O'er the wide down then from some ridged point	S3
That overlooks the sea his eager eye	T
Watches the bark that for his signal waits
To land its merchandize

Charlotte Smith

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