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FAIR OTAHEITE fondly blest	A
By him who long was doom'd to brave	B
The fury of the Polar wave	B
That fiercely mounts the frozen rock	C
Where the harsh sea bird rears her nest	A
And learns the raging surge to mock	C
There Night that loves eternal storm	D
Deep and lengthened darkness throws	E
And untried danger's doubtful form	D
Its half seen horror shews	E
While Nature with a look so wild	F
Leans on the cliffs in chaos pil'd	F
That here the aw'd astonish'd mind	G
Forgets in that o'erwhelming hour	H
When her rude hands the storms unbind	G
In all the madness of her power	H
That she who spreads the savage gloom	I
That she can dress in melting grace	E
In sportive Summer's lavish bloom	I
The awful terrors of her face	E
And wear the sweet perennial smile	J
That charms in OTAHEITE'S isle	J
Yet amid her fragrant bowers	E
Where Spring whose dewy fingers strew	K
O'er other lands some fleeting flowers	E
Lives in blossoms ever new	K
Whence arose that shriek of pain	L
Whence the tear that flows in vain	L
Death thy unrelenting hand	G
Bursts some transient human band	G
What art thou Death terrific shade	G
In unpierc'd gloom array'd	G
Oft will daring Fancy stray	M
Far in the central wastes where night	G
Divides no cheering hour with day	M
And unnam'd horrors meet her sight	G
There thy form she dimly sees	E
And round the shape unfinish'd throws	E
All her frantic vision shews	E
When numbing fears her spirit freeze	E
But can mortal voice declare	N
If Fancy paints thee as thou art	G
Thy aspect may a terror wear	N
Her pencil never shall impart	G
The eye that once on thee shall gaze	E
No more its stiffen'd orb can raise	E
The lips that could thy power reveal	O
Shall lasting silence instant seal	O
In vain the icy hand we fold	G
In vain the breast with tears we steep	P
The heart that shar'd each pang is cold	G
The vacant eye no more can weep	P
Yet from the shore where Ganges rolls	E
His waves beneath the torrid ray	M
To earth's chill verge where o'er the poles	E
Falls the last beam of ling'ring day	M
For ever sacred are the dead	G
Sweet Fancy comes in sorrow's aid	G
And bids the mourner lightly tread	G
Where th' insensate clay is laid	G
Bids partial gloom the sod invest	G
By the mould'ring relics prest	G
There lavish strews with sad delight	G
Whate'er her consecrating power	H
Reveres of herb or fruit or flower	H
And fondly weaves the various rite	G
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See o'er OTAHEITE'S plain	L
Moves the long funereal train	L
Slow the pallid corse they bear	N
Oft they breathe the solemn prayer	N
Where the Ocean bathes the land	G
Thrice and thrice with pious hand	G
The priest where high the billow springs	E
From the wave unsullied flings	E
Waters pure that sprinkled near	Q
Sanctify the hallow'd bier	R
But never may one drop profane	L
The relics with forbidden stain	L
Now around the fun'ral shrine	S
Led in mystic mazes twine	S
Garlands where the plantain weaves	E
With the palm's luxuriant leaves	E
And o'er each sacred knot is spread	G
The plant devoted to the dead	G
Five pale moons with trembling light	G
Shall gaze upon the lengthen'd rite	G
Shall see distracted beauty tear	N
The tresses of her flowing hair	N
Those graceful locks no longer dear	Q
She wildly scatters o'er the bier	R
And frantic gives the frequent wound	G
That purples with her blood the ground	G
Where along the western sky	T
Day's reflected colours die	T
And twilight rules the doubtful hour	H
Ere slow pac'd night resumes her power	H
Mark the cloud that lingers still	U
Darkly on the hanging hill	U
There the disembodied mind	G
Hears upon the hollow wind	G
Low in mournful cadence thrown	V
Sorrow's oft repeated moan	V
Still some human passions sway	M
The spirit late immers'd in clay	M
Still the hopeless sigh is dear	Q
Still belov'd the fruitless tear	N
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Five waning moons with wand'ring light	G
Have past the shadowy bound of night	G
And mingled their departing ray	M
With the soft fires of early day	M
Let the last sad rites be paid	G
Grateful to the conscious shade	G
Let the priest with pious care	N
Now the wasted relics bear	N
Where the MORAI'S awful gloom	I
Shrouds the consecrated tomb	I
Let the plantain lift its head	G
Cherish'd emblem of the dead	G
Slow and solemn o'er the grave	B
Let the twisted plumage wave	B
Symbol hallow'd and divine	S
Of the god who guards the shrine	S
Hark that shriek of strange despair	N
Never shall disturb the air	N
Never never shall it rise	E
But for Nature's broken ties	E
Bright Crescent that with lucid smile	J
Gild'st the MORAI'S lofty pile	J
Whose broad lines of shadow throw	W
A gloomy horror far below	W
Witness O recording moon	X
All the rites are duly done	Y
Be the faithful tribute o'er	H
The hov'ring spirit asks no more	Z
Mortals cease the pile to tread	G
Leave to silence leave the dead	G
But where may she who loves to stray	M
'Mid shadows of funereal gloom	I
And courts the sadness of the tomb	I
Where may she seek that proud MORAI	M
Whose dear memorial points the place	E
Where fell the friend of human race	E
Ye lonely Isles on Ocean's bound	G
Ye bloom'd thro' Time's long flight unknown	V
Till Cook the untrack'd billow past	G
Till he along the surges cast	G
Philanthropy's connecting zone	V
And spread her loveliest blessings round	G
Not like that murd'rous band he came	A2
Who stain'd with blood the new found West	G
Nor as with unrelenting breast	G
From BRITAIN'S free enlightened land	G
Her sons now seek ANGOLA'S strand	G
The ties most sacred to unbind	G
To load with chains a brother's frame	A2
And plunge a dagger in the mind	G
Mock the sharp anguish bleeding there	M
Of nature in her last despair	M
Great COOK Ambition's lofty flame	A2
So oft directed to destroy	M
Led thee to circle with thy name	A2
The smile of love and hope and joy	M
Those fires that lend the dang'rous blaze	E
The devious comet trails afar	M
Might form the pure benignant rays	E
That gild the morning's gentle star	M
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Sure where the hero's ashes rest	G
The nations late emerg'd from night	G
Still haste with love's unwearied care	M
That spot in lavish flowers is drest	G
And fancy's dear inventive rite	G
Still paid with fond observance there	M
Ah no around his fatal grave	B
No lavish flowers were ever strew'd	G
No votive gift was ever laid	G
His blood a savage shore bedew'd	G
His mangled limbs one hasty prayer	M
One pious tear by friendship paid	G
Were cast upon the raging wave	B
Deep in the wild abyss he lies	E
Far from the cherish'd scene of home	B2
Far far from her whose faithful sighs	E
A husband's trackless course pursue	E
Whose tender fancy loves to roam	B2
With him o'er lands and oceans new	E
And gilds with hope's deluding form	D
The gloomy pathway of the storm	D
Yet Cook immortal wreathes are thine	S
While Albion's grateful toil shall raise	E
The marble tomb the trophied bust	G
For ages faithful to its trust	G
While eager to record thy praise	E
She bids the muse of history twine	S
The chaplet of undying fame	A2
And tell each polish'd land thy worth	C2
The ruder natives of the earth	C2
Shall oft repeat thy honour'd name	A2
While infants catch the frequent sound	G
And learn to lisp the oral tale	D2
Whose fond remembrance shall prevail	D2
Till Time has reach'd her destin'd bound	G