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Such are thy views DISCOVERY The great world	A
Rolls to thine eye revealed to thee the Deep	B
Submits its awful empire Industry	C
Awakes and Commerce to the echoing marts	D
From east to west unwearied pours her wealth	E
Man walks sublimer and Humanity	C
Matured by social intercourse more high	F
More animated lifts her sovereign mien	G
And waves her golden sceptre Yet the heart	H
Asks trembling is no evil found Oh turn	I
Meek Charity and drop a human tear	J
For the sad fate of Afric's injured sons	K
And hide for ever hide the sight of chains	L
Anguish and bondage Yes the heart of man	M
Is sick and Charity turns pale to think	N
How soon for pure religion's holy beam	O
Dark crimes that sullied the sweet day pursued	P
Like vultures the Discoverer's ocean tract	Q
Screaming for blood to fields of rich Peru	R
Or ravaged Mexico while Gold more Gold	S
The caverned mountains echoed Gold more Gold	S
Then see the fell eyed prowling buccaneer	T
Grim as a libbard He his jealous look	U
Turns to the dagger at his belt his hand	V
By instinct grasps a bloody scymitar	T
And ghastly is his smile as o'er the woods	W
He sees the smoke of burning villages	X
Ascend and thinks ev'n now he counts his spoil	Y
See thousands destined to the lurid mine	Z
Never to see the sun again all names	A2
Of husband sire all tender charities	B2
Of love deep buried with them in that grave	C2
Where life is as a thing long passed and hope	D2
No more its sickly ray to cheer the gloom	E2
Extends	F2
Thou too dread Ocean toss thine arms	G2
Exulting for the treasures and the gems	H2
That thy dark oozy realm emblaze and call	I2
The pale procession of the dead from caves	J2
Where late their bodies weltered to attend	K2
Thy kingly sceptre and proclaim thy might	L2
Lord of the Hurricane bid all thy winds	M2
Swell and destruction ride upon the surge	N2
Where after the red lightning flash that shows	O2
The labouring ship all is at once deep night	L2
And long suspense till the slow dawn of day	P2
Gleams on the scattered corses of the dead	Q2
That strew the sounding shore	T
Then think of him	R2
Ye who rejoice with those you love at eve	S2
When winds of winter shake the window frame	T2
And more endear your fire oh think of him	R2
Who saved alone from the destroying storm	U2
Is cast on some deserted rock who sees	B2
Sun after sun descend and hopeless hears	V2
At morn the long surge of the troubled main	W2
That beats without his wretched cave meantime	X2
He fears to wake the echoes with his voice	Y2
So dread the solitude	P
Let Greenland's snows	O2
Then shine and mark the melancholy train	W2
There left to perish whilst the cold pale day	P2
Declines along the further ice that binds	Z2
The ship and leaves in night the sinking scene	G
Sad winter closes on the deep the smoke	A3
Of frost that late amusive to the eye	F
Rose o'er the coast is passed and all is now	B3
One torpid blank the freezing particles	C3
Blown blistering and the white bear seeks her cave	C2
Ill fated outcasts when the morn again	D3
Shall streak with feeble beam the frozen waste	E3
Your air bleached and unburied carcases	C3
Shall press the ground and as the stars fade off	F3
Your stony eyes glare 'mid the desert snows	C3
These triumphs boast fell Demon of the Deep	B
Though never more the universal shriek	G3
Of all that perish thou shalt hear as when	D3
The deep foundations of the guilty earth	H3
Were shaken at the voice of God and man	M
Ceased in his habitations yet the sea	C3
Thy might tempestuous still and joyless rule	I3
Confesses Ah what bloodless shadows throng	J3
Ev'n now slow rising from their oozy beds	C3
From Mete and those gates of burial	K3
That guard the Erythraean from the vast	L3
Unfathomed caverns of the Western main	W2
Or stormy Orcades whilst the sad shell	M3
Of poor Arion to the hollow blast	L3
Slow seems to pour its melancholy tones	C3
And faintly vibrate as the dead pass by	F
I see the chiefs who fell in distant lands	C3
The prey of murderous savages when yells	C3
And shouts and conch resounded through the woods	C3
Magellan and De Solis seem to lead	Q2
The mournful train Shade of Perouse oh say	C3
Where in the tract of unknown seas thy bones	C3
Th' insulting surge has swept	N3
But who is he	C3
Whose look though pale and bloody wears the trace	C3
Of pure philanthropy The pitying sigh	F
Forbid not he was dear to Britons dear	T
To every beating heart far as the world	A
Extends and my faint faltering touch ev'n now	B3
Dies on the strings when I pronounce thy name	T2
Oh lost lamented generous hapless Cook	U
But cease the vain complaint turn from the shores	C3
Wet with his blood Remembrance cast thine eyes	C3
Upon the long seas and the wider world	A
Displayed from his research Smile glowing Health	E
For now no more the wasted seaman sinks	C3
With haggard eye and feeble frame diseased	O3
No more with tortured longings for the sight	L2
Of fields and hillocks green madly he calls	C3
On Nature when before his swimming eye	F
The liquid long expanse of cheerless seas	C3
Seems all one flowery plain Then frantic dreams	C3
Arise his eye's distemper'd flash is seen	G
From the sunk socket as a demon there	T
Sat mocking till he plunges in the flood	P3
And the dark wave goes o'er him	R2
Nor wilt thou	B3
O Science fail to deck the cold morai	T
Of him who wider o'er earth's hemisphere	T
Thy views extended On from deep to deep	B
Thou shalt retrace the windings of his track	Q3
From the high North to where the field ice binds	C3
The still Antarctic Thence from isle to isle	R3
Thou shalt pursue his progress and explore	T
New Holland's eastern shores where now the sons	C3
Of distant Britain from her lap cast out	S3
Water the ground with tears of penitence	C3
Perhaps hereafter in their destined time	X2
Themselves to rise pre eminent Now speed	T3
By Asia's eastern bounds still to the North	U3
Where the vast continents of either world	A
Approach Beyond 'tis silent boundless ice	C3
Impenetrable barrier where all thought	V3
Is lost where never yet the eagle flew	R
Nor roamed so far the white bear through the waste	E3
But thou dread POWER whose voice from chaos called	W3
The earth who bad'st the Lord of light go forth	U3
Ev'n as a giant and the sounding seas	C3
Roll at thy fiat may the dark deep clouds	C3
That thy pavilion shroud from mortal sight	L2
So pass away as now the mystery	T
Obscure through rolling ages is disclosed	X3
How man from one great Father sprung his race	C3
Spread to that severed continent Ev'n so	C3
FATHER in thy good time shall all things stand	V
Revealed to knowledge	Y3
As the mind revolves	C3
The change of mighty empires and the fate	Z3
Of HIM whom Thou hast made back through the dusk	A4
Of ages Contemplation turns her view	R
We mark as from its infancy the world	A
Peopled again from that mysterious shrine	Z
That rested on the top of Ararat	B4
Highest of Asian mountains spreading on	C4
The Cushites from their mountain caves descend	K2
Then before GOD the sons of Ammon stood	D4
In their gigantic might and first the seas	C3
Vanquished But still from clime to clime the groan	E4
Of sacrifice and Superstition's cry	T
Was heard but when the Dayspring rose of heaven	F4
Greece's hoar forests echoed The great Pan	M
Is dead From Egypt and the rugged shores	C3
Of Syrian Tyre the gods of darkness fly	T
Bel is cast down and Nebo horrid king	G4
Bows in imperial Babylon But ah	H4
Too soon the Star of Bethlehem whose ray	T
The host of heaven hailed jubilant and sang	I4
Glory to God on high and on earth peace	C3
With long eclipse is veiled	J4
Red Papacy	T
Usurped the meek dominion of the Lord	K4
Of love and charity vast as a fiend	L4
She rose Heaven's light was darkened with her frown	M4
And the earth murmured back her hymns of blood	P3
As the meek martyr at the burning stake	N4
Stood his last look uplifted to his GOD	O4
But she is now cast down her empire reft	O4
They who in darkness walked and in the shade	O4
Of death have seen a new and holy light	O4
As in th' umbrageous forest through whose boughs	C3
Mossy and damp for many a league the morn	P4
With languid beam scarce pierces here and there	T
Touching some solitary trunk the rest	O4
Dark waving in the noxious atmosphere	T
Through the thick matted leaves the serpent winds	C3
His way to find a spot of cas	C3

William Lisle Bowles

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