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I should-old Ocean's Saturnalian days,
And roaring nights of revelry and sport
With wreck and human woe-be loth to sing,
For they are few, and all their ills weigh light
Against his sacred usefulness, that bids

Our pensile globe revolve in purer air.

Here Morn and Eve with blushing thanks receive

Their freshening dews; gay fluttering breezes cool

Their wings to fan the brow of fever'd climes; And here the Spring dips down her emerald urn For showers to glad the Earth.

Old Ocean was,

Infinity of ages ere we breathed

Existence; and he will be beautiful,

When all the living world that sees him now,
Shall roll unconscious dust around the sun.
Quelling from age to age the vital throb
In human hearts, Death shall not subjugate
The palse that swells in his stupendous breast,
Or interdict his minstrelsy to sound

In thundering concert with the quiring winds:
But long as man to parent Nature owns
Instinctive homage, and in times beyond

The power of thought to reach, bard after bard Shall sing thy glory, BEATIFIC SEA!

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The Last Man,

Valedictory Stanzas to J. P. Kemble, Esq.
A Dream,

Lines written at the request of the High-
land Society in London, when met to
commemorate the 21st of March, the
day of victory in Egypt,

Stanzas to the memory of the Spanish Pa-
triots latest killed in resisting the Re-
gency and the Duke of Angouleme, .

Song of the Greeks,

Song of Hybrias the Cretan,

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