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Stand on the gleaming Pharos and aloud	A
Shout Commerce to the kingdoms of the earth	B
Shout for thy golden portals are set wide	C
And all thy streamers o'er the surge aloft	D
In pomp triumphant wave The weary way	E
That pale Nearchus passed from creek to creek	F
Advancing slow no longer bounds the track	G
Of the adventurous mariner who steers	H
Steady with eye intent upon the stars	I
To Elam's echoing port Meantime more high	J
Aspiring o'er the Western main her towers	K
Th' imperial city lifts the central mart	L
Of nations and beneath the calm clear sky	J
At distance from the palmy marge displays	M
Her clustering columns whitening to the morn	N
Damascus' fleece Golconda's gems are there	O
Murmurs the haven with one ceaseless hum	P
The hurrying camel's bell the driver's song	Q
Along the sands resound Tyre art thou fall'n	R
A prouder city crowns the inland sea	S
Raised by his hand who smote thee as if thus	T
His mighty mind were swayed to recompense	U
The evil of his march through cities stormed	V
And regions wet with blood and still had flowed	W
The tide of commerce through the destined track	G
Traced by his mind sagacious who surveyed	X
The world he conquered with a sage's eye	J
As with a soldier's spirit but a scene	Y
More awful opens ancient world adieu	Z
Adieu cloud piercing pillars erst its bounds	A2
And thou whose aged head once seemed to prop	B2
The heavens huge Atlas sinking fast adieu	Z
What though the seas with wilder fury rave	C2
Through their deserted realm though the dread Cape	D2
Sole frowning o'er the war of waves below	E2
That bar the seaman's search horrid in air	O
Appear with giant amplitude his head	F2
Shrouded in clouds the tempest at his feet	G2
And standing thus terrific seem to say	E
Incensed Approach who dare What though the fears	H
Of superstition people the vexed space	H2
With spirits unblessed that lamentations make	I2
To the sad surge beyond yet Enterprise	J2
Not now a darkling Cyclop on the sands	K2
Striding but led by Science and advanced	L2
To a more awful height on the wide scene	Y
Looks down commanding	M2
Does a shuddering thought	N2
Of danger start as the tumultuous sea	S
Tosses below Calm Science with a smile	O2
Displays the wondrous index that still points	P2
With nice vibration tremulous to the Pole	Q2
And such she whispers is the just man's hope	R2
In this tempestuous scene of human things	S2
Even as the constant needle to the North	T2
Still points so Piety and meek eyed Faith	U2
Direct though trembling oft their constant gaze	M
Heavenward as to their lasting home nor fear	V2
The night fast closing on their earthly way	E
And guided by this index thou shall pass	W2
The world of seas secure Far from all land	X2
Where not a sea bird wanders where nor star	Y2
Nor moon appears nor the bright noonday sun	Z2
Safe in the wildering storm as when the breeze	A3
Of summer gently blows through day through night	B3
Where sink the well known stars and others rise	J2
Slow from the South the victor bark shall ride	C
Henry thy ardent mind first pierced the gloom	C3
Of dark disastrous ignorance that sat	D3
Upon the Southern wave like the deep cloud	A
That lowered upon the woody skirts and veiled	E3
From mortal search with umbrage ominous	T
Madeira's unknown isle But look the morn	N
Is kindled on the shadowy offing streaks	F3
Of clear cold light on Sagres' battlements	G3
Are cast where Henry watches listening still	H3
To the unwearied surge and turning still	H3
His anxious eyes to the horizon's bounds	A2
A sail appears it swells it shines more high	J
Seen through the dusk it looms and now the hull	I3
Is black upon the surge whilst she rolls on	J3
Aloft the weather beaten ship and now	K3
Streams by the watch tower	L3
Zarco from the deep	M3
What tidings	S2
The loud storm of night prevailed	E3
And swept our vessel from Bojador's rocks	N3
Far out to sea a sylvan isle received	O3
Our sails so willed the ALMIGHTY He who speaks	F3
And all the waves are still	H3
Hail HENRY cried	C
The omen we have burst the sole barrier	L3
Prosper our wishes Father of the world	P3
We speed to Asia	Q3
Soon upon the deep	M3
The brave ship speeds again Bojador's rocks	N3
Arise at distance frowning o'er the surf	R3
That boils for many a league without Its course	S3
The ship holds on till lo the beauteous isle	O2
That shielded late the sufferers from the storm	T3
Springs o'er the wave again Here they refresh	U3
Their wasted strength and lift their vows to Heaven	Z2
But Heaven denies their further search for ah	V3
What fearful apparition palled in clouds	W3
For ever sits upon the Western wave	C2
Like night and in its strange portentous gloom	C3
Wrapping the lonely waters seems the bounds	A2
Of Nature Still it sits day after day	E
The same mysterious vision Holy saints	X3
Is it the dread abyss where all things cease	Y3
Or haply hid from mortal search thine isle	O2
Cipango and that unapproached seat	G2
Of peace where rest the Christians whom the hate	Z3
Of Moorish pride pursued Whate'er it be	S
Zarco thy holy courage bids thee on	J3
To burst the gloom though dragons guard the shore	A4
Or beings more than mortal pace the sands	K2
The favouring gales invite the bowsprit bears	B4
Right onward to the fearful shade more black	G
The cloudy spectre towers already fear	V2
Shrinks at the view aghast and breathless Hark	C4
'Twas more than the deep murmur of the surge	D4
That struck the ear whilst through the lurid gloom	C3
Gigantic phantoms seem to lift in air	O
Their misty arms yet yet bear boldly on	J3
The mist dissolves seen through the parting haze	M
Romantic rocks like the depictured clouds	W3
Shine out beneath a blooming wilderness	T
Of varied wood is spread that scents the air	O
Where fruits of 'golden rind ' thick interspersed	E4
And pendent through the mantling umbrage gleam	F4
Inviting Cypress here and stateliest pine	G4
Spire o'er the nether shades as emulous	T
Of sole distinction where all nature smiles	T
Some trees in sunny glades alone their head	F2
And graceful stem uplifting mark below	E2
The turf with shadow whilst in rich festoons	T
The flowery lianes braid their boughs meantime	H4
Choirs of innumerous birds of liveliest song	Q
And brightest plumage flitting through the shades	T
With nimble glance are seen they unalarmed	F2
Now near in airy circles sing then speed	F2
Their random flight back to their sheltering bowers	T
Whose silence broken only by their song	Q
From the foundation of this busy world	F2
Perhaps had never echoed to the voice	T
Or heard the steps of Man What rapture fired	F2
The strangers' bosoms as from glade to glade	F2
They passed admiring all and gazing still	H3
With new delight 'Tis solitude around	F2
Deep solitude that on the gloom of woods	T
Primaeval fearful hangs a green recess	T
Now opens in the wilderness gay flowers	T
Of unknown name purple the yielding sward	F2
The ring dove murmurs o'er their head like one	Z2
Attesting tenderest joy but mark the trees	T
Where slanting through the gloom the sunshine rests	T
Beneath a moss grown monument appears	T
O'er which the green banana gently waves	T
Its long leaf and an aged cypress near	V2
Leans as if listening to the streamlet's sound	F2
That gushes from the adverse bank but pause	T
Approach with reverence Maker of the world	F2
There is a Christian's cross and on the stone	I4
A name yet legible amid its moss	T
Anna	Q3
In that remote sequestered spot	F2
Shut as it seemed from all the world and lost	F2
In boundless seas to trace a name to mark	C4
The emblems of their holy faith from all	J4
Drew tears while every voice faintly pronounced	F2
Anna But thou loved harp whose strings have rung	K4
To louder tones oh let my hand awhile	O2
The wires more softly touch whilst I rehearse	T
Her name and fate who in this desert deep	M3
Far from the world from friends and kindred found	F2
Her long and last abode there where no eye	J
Might shed a tear on her remains no heart	F2
Sigh in remembrance of her fate	F2
She left	F2
The Severn's side and fled with him she loved	F2
O'er the wide main for he had tol	J4

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