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Stern Father of the storm who dost abide	A
Amid the solitude of the vast deep	B
For ever listening to the sullen tide	A
And whirlwinds that the billowy desert sweep	B
Thou at the distant death shriek dost rejoice	C
The rule of the tempestuous main is thine	D
Outstretched and lone thou utterest thy voice	C
Like solemn thunders These wild waves are mine	D
Mine their dread empire nor shall man profane	E
The eternal secrets of my ancient reign	E
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The voice is vain secure and as in scorn	F
The gallant vessel scuds before the wind	G
Her parting sails swell stately to the morn	F
She leaves the green earth and its hills behind	G
Gallant before the wind she goes her prow	H
High bearing and disparting the blue tide	A
That foams and flashes in its rage below	I
Meantime the helmsman feels a conscious pride	A
And while far onward the long billows swell	J
Looks to the lessening land that seems to say Farewell	J
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Father of storms then let thy whirlwinds roar	K
O'er seas of solitary amplitude	L
Man the poor tenant of thy rocky shore	K
Man thy terrific empire hath subdued	L
And though thy waves toss his high foundered bark	M
Where no dim watch light gleams still he defies	N
Thy utmost rage and in his buoyant ark	M
Speeds on regardless of the darkening skies	N
And o'er the mountain surges as they roll	O
Subdues his destined way and speeds from pole to pole	O
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Behold him now far from his native plain	E
Where high woods shade some wild Hesperian bay	P
Or green isles glitter in the southern main	E
His streaming ensign to the morn display	P
Behold him where the North's pale meteors dance	Q
And icy rocks roll glimmering from afar	R
Fearless through night and solitude advance	Q
Or where the pining sons of Andamar	R
When dark eclipse has wrapt the labouring moon	S
Howl to the demon of the dread monsoon	S
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Time was like them poor Nature's shivering child	T
Pacing the beach and by the salt spray beat	U
He watched the melancholy surge or smiled	T
To see it burn and bicker at his feet	U
In some rude shaggy spot by fortune placed	V
He dreamed not of strange lands and empires spread	W
Beyond the rolling of the watery waste	V
He saw the sun shine on the mountain's head	W
But knew not whilst he hailed the orient light	X
What myriads blessed his beam or sickened at the sight	X
	-
From some dark promontory that o'erbent	X
The flashing waves he heard their ceaseless roar	R
Or carolled in his light canoe content	X
As bound from creek to creek it grazed the shore	R
Gods of the storm the dreary space might sweep	B
And shapes of death and gliding spectres gaunt	X
Might flit he thought o'er the remoter deep	B
And whilst strange voices cried Avaunt avaunt	X
Uncertain lights seen through the midnight gloom	Y
Might lure him sadly on to his cold watery tomb	Y
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No city then amid the calm clear day	X
O'er the blue waters' undulating line	D
With battlements and fans that glittered gay	X
And piers and thronging masts was seen to shine	D
No cheerful sounds were wafted on the gale	Z
Nor hummed the shores with early industry	R
But mournful birds in hollow cliffs did wail	Z
And there all day the cormorant did cry	R
While with sunk eye and matted dripping locks	A2
The houseless savage slept beneath the foam beat rocks	A2
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Thus slumbering long upon the dreamy verge	B2
Of instinct see he rouses from his trance	Q
Faint and as glimmering yet the Arts emerge	B2
One after one from darkness and advance	Q
Beauteous as o'er the heavens the stars' still way	X
Now see the track of his dominion wide	X
Fair smiling as the dayspring cities gay	X
Lift their proud heads and o'er the yellow tide	X
Whilst sounds of fervent industry arise	N
A thousand pennants float bright streaming in the skies	N
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Genius of injured Asia once sublime	C2
And glorious now dim seen amid the storm	D2
And melancholy clouds of sweeping time	C2
Who yet dost half reveal thine awful form	D2
Pointing with saddened aspect and slow hand	X
To vast emporiums desolate and waste	X
To wrecks of unknown cities sunk in sand	X
'Twas at thy voice Arts Order Science Taste	X
Upsprung the East adorning like the smile	E2
Of Spring upon the banks of thy own swelling Nile	E2
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'Twas at thy voice huge Enterprise awoke	F2
That long on rocky Aradus reclined	X
Slumbered to the hoarse surge that round her broke	F2
And hollow pipings of the idle wind	X
She heard thy voice upon the rock she stood	X
Gigantic the rude scene she marked she cried	X
Let there be intercourse and the great flood	X
Waft the rich plenty to these shores denied	X
And soon thine eye delighted saw aspire	R
Crowning the midland main thy own Imperial Tyre	R
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Queen of the waters who didst ope the gate	X
Of Commerce and display in lands unknown	G2
Thy venturous sail ev'n now in ancient state	X
Methinks I see thee on thy rocky throne	G2
I see their massy piles thy cothons rear	R
And on the deep a solemn shadow cast	X
I traverse thy once echoing shores and hear	R
The sound of mighty generations past	X
I see thy kingly merchants' thronged resort	X
And gold and purple gleam o'er all thy spacious port	X
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I mark thy glittering galleys sweep along	H2
The steady rowers to the strokes incline	D
And chaunt in unison their choral song	H2
White through their oars the ivory benches shine	D
The fine wrought sails which looms of Egypt wove	I2
Swell beautiful beneath the bending mast	X
Hewn from proud Lebanon's immortal grove	I2
The oaks of Bashan brave the roaring blast	X
So o'er the western wave thy vessels float	X
For verdant Egypt bound or Calpe's cliffs remote	X
	-
Queen of the waters throned upon thy seat	X
Amid the sea thy beauty and thy fame	J2
The deep that rolls low murmuring at thy feet	X
And all the multitude of isles proclaim	J2
For thee Damascus piles her woolly store	R
To thee their flocks Arabia's princes bring	K2
And Sheba heaps her spice and glittering ore	R
The ships of Tarshish of thy glory sing	K2
Queen of the waters who is like to thee	R
Replenished in thy might and throned on the sea	R
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The purple streamers fly the trumpets sound	X
The adventurous bark glides on in tranquil state	X
The voyagers with leafy garlands crowned	X
Draw back their arms together and elate	X
Sweep o'er the surge the spray far scattered flies	N
Beneath the stroke of their unwearied oars	L2
To their loud shouts the circling coast replies	N
And now o'er the deep ocean where it roars	L2
They fly till slowly lessening from the shore	R
Beneath the haze they sink sink and are seen no more	R
	-
When Night descends and with her silver bow	H
The Queen of Heaven comes forth in radiance bright	X
Surveying the dim earth and seas below	I
Why from afar resounds the mystic rite	X
Hymned round her uncouth altar Virgins there	R
Amid the brazen cymbal's hollow ring	K2
And aged priests the solemn feast prepare	R
To her their nightly orisons they sing	K2
That she may look from her high throne and guide	X
The wandering bark secure along the trackless tide	X
	-
Her on his nightly watch the pilot views	M2
Careful and by her soft and tranquil light	X
Along the uncertain coast his track pursues	M2
And now he sees great Carmel's woody height	X
Where nightly fires to grisly Baal burn	N2
Round the rough cape he winds meantime far on	O2
Thick eddying scuds the hollow surf upturn	N2
He thinks of the sweet light of summer gone	P2
He thinks perhaps dashed on the rugged shore	R
He never shall behold his babes' loved mother more	R
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Slow comes the morn but ah what demon form	D2
While pealing thunder the high concave rends	M2
Rises more vast amid the rushing storm	D2
With dreadful shade his horrid bulk ascends	M2
Dark to the driving clouds beneath him roars	M2
The deep his troubled brow is wrapped in gloom	Y
See it moves onwards now more huge it soars	M2
Who shall avert the poor seafarer's doom	Y
Who now shall save him from the spectre's might	X
That treads the rocking waves in thunder and in night	X
	-
Dread phantom art thou he whose fearful sway	X
As Egypt's hoary chronicles have told	X
The clouds the whirlwinds and the seas obey	X
Typhon of aspect hideous to behold	X
Oh spare the wretched wanderers who led	X
By flattering hopes have left the peaceful shore	R
Behold they shrink they bend with speechless dread	X
From their faint grasp drops the unheeded oar	R
It answers not but mingling seas and sky	R
In clouds and wind and thunder rushes by	R
	-
Hail to thy light lord of the golden day	X
That bursting through the sable clouds again	Q2
Dost cheer the seaman's solitary way	X
And with new splendour deck the lucid main	E
And lo the voyage past where many a palm	R2
Its green top only seen the prospect bounds	M2
Fringing the sunny sea line clear and calm	R2
Now hark the slowly swelling human sounds	M2
Meantime the bark along the placid bay	X
Of Tamiatis keeps her easy winding way	X
	-
Here rest we safe from scenes of peril past	X
No danger lurks in this serene retreat	X
No more is heard the roaring of the blast	X
But pastoral sounds of scattered flocks that bleat	X
Or evening herds that o'er the champaign low	I
Here citrons tall and purple dates around	X
Delicious fragrance and cool shade bestow	I
The shores with murmuring industry resound	X
While through the vernal pastures where he strays	M2
The Nile as with delight his mazy course delays	M2