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AH wherefore do the incurious say	A
That this stupendous ocean wide	B
No change presents from day to day	A
Save only the alternate tide	B
Or save when gales of summer glide	B
Across the lightly crisped wave	C
Or when against the cliff's rough side	B
As equinoctial tempests rave	C
It wildly bursts o'erwhelms the deluged strand	D
Tears down its bounds and desolates the land	D
	-
He who with more enquiring eyes	E
Doth this extensive scene survey	A
Beholds innumerous changes rise	E
As various winds its surface sway	A
Now o'er its heaving bosom play	A
Small sparkling waves of silver gleam	F
And as they lightly glide away	A
Illume with fluctuating beam	F
The deepening surge green as the dewy corn	G
That undulates in April's breezy morn	G
The far off waters then assume	H
A glowing amethystine shade	I
That changing like the peacock's plume	H
Seems in celestial blue to fade	I
	-
Or paler colder hues of lead	J
As lurid vapours float on high	K
Along the ruffling billows spread	J
While darkly lours the threatening sky	K
And the small scatter'd barks with outspread shrouds	L
Catch the long gleams that fall between the clouds	L
Then day's bright star with blunted rays	M
Seems struggling thro' the sea fog pale	N
And doubtful in the heavy haze	M
Is dimly seen the nearing sail	N
'Till from the land a fresher gale	N
Disperses the white mist and clear	O
As melts away the gauzy veil	N
The sun reflecting waves appear	O
	-
So brighter genuine virtue seems to rise	E
From envy's dark invidious calumnies	E
What glories on the sun attend	P
When the full tides of evening flow	Q
Where in still changing beauty blend	P
With amber light the opal's glow	Q
While in the east the diamond bow	R
Rises in virgin lustre bright	S
And from the horizon seems to throw	Q
A partial line of trembling light	S
To the hush'd shore and all the tranquil deep	T
Beneath the modest moon is sooth'd to sleep	T
	-
Forgotten then the thundering break	U
Of waves that in the tempest rise	E
The falling cliff the shatter'd wreck	V
The howling blast the sufferer's cries	E
For soft the breeze of evening sighs	E
And murmuring seems in Fancy's ear	W
To whisper fairy lullabies	E
That tributary waters bear	X
From precipices dark with piny woods	E
And inland rocks and heathy solitudes	E
The vast encircling seas within	Y
What endless swarms of creatures hide	B
Of burnish'd scale and spiny fin	Y
These providential instincts guide	B
	-
And bid them know the annual tide	B
When from unfathom'd waves that swell	Z
Beyond Fuego's stormy side	B
They come to cheer the tribes that dwell	Z
In Boreal climes and thro' his half year's night	S
Give to the Lapland savage food and light	S
From cliffs that pierce the northern sky	K
Where eagles rear their sanguine brood	A2
With long awaiting patient eye	K
Baffled by many a sailing cloud	B2
The Highland native marks the flood	C2
Till bright the quickening billows roll	D2
And hosts of sea birds clamouring loud	B2
Track with wild wing the welcome shoal	D2
	-
Swift o'er the animated current sweep	T
And bear their silver captives from the deep	T
Sons of the North your streamy vales	E
With no rich sheaves rejoice and sing	E2
Her flowery robe no fruit conceals	E
Tho' sweetly smile your tardy spring	E2
Yet every mountain clothed with ling	E2
Doth from its purple brow survey	A
Your busy sails that ceaseless bring	E2
To the broad frith and sheltering bay	A
Riches by Heaven's parental power supplied	B
The harvest of the far embracing tide	B
	-
And where those fractur'd mountains lift	F2
O'er the blue wave their towering crest	G2
Each salient ledge and hollow cleft	H2
To sea fowl give a rugged nest	G2
But with instinctive love is drest	G2
The Eider's downy cradle where	X
The mother bird her glossy breast	G2
Devotes and with maternal care	X
And plumeless bosom stems the toiling seas	E
That foam round the tempestuous Orcades	E
From heights whence shuddering sense recoils	E
And cloud capped headlands steep and bare	X
Sons of the North your venturous toils	E
Collect your poor and scanty fare	X
	-
Urged by imperious Want you dare	X
Scale the loose cliff where Gannets hide	G2
Or scarce suspended in the air	X
Hang perilous and thus provide	G2
The soft voluptuous couch which not secures	E
To Luxury's pamper'd minions sleep like yours	E
Revolving still the waves that now	R
Just ripple on the level shore	I2
Have borne perchance the Indian's prow	R
Or half congeal'd 'mid ice rocks hoar	I2
Raved to the Walrus' hollow roar	I2
Or have by currents swift convey'd	G2
To the cold coast of Labrador	I2
The relics of the tropic shade	G2
	-
And to the wondering Esquimaux have shown	J2
Leaves of strange shape and fruits unlike their own	J2
No more then let the incurious say	E
No change this world of water shows	E
But as the tides the moon obey	E
Or tempests rave or calms repose	E
Shew them its bounteous breast bestows	E
On myriads life and bid them see	E
In every wave that circling flows	E
Beauty and use and harmony	E
Works of the Power Supreme who poured the flood	G2
Round the green peopled earth and call'd it good	G2

Charlotte Smith

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