The Count of the Saxon Shore; or The Villa in Vectis.<br />A Tale of the Departure of the Romans fro, Church and Putnam [summer beach reads TXT] 📗
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fellow-countrymen elsewhere.”
The poet, not more reluctant than his brother-countryman to exhibit his genius, at once signified his willingness to comply with this request, and gave a recitation from an unfinished poem which he had then in hand. We may give a specimen, put into the best English that we can command—
“The elemental order there she drew,
And Jove’s high dwellings; there you saw
The needle tell how ancient Chaos grew
To harmony and law;
“How Nature set in order due and rank
Her atoms, raised the light on high,
And to the middle place the weightier sank;
There lustrous shone the sky,
“The heavens were pink with flame, the ocean rolled,
The great world hung in mid suspense.
Each was of diverse hue; she worked in gold
The starry fires intense,
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“Bade ocean flow in purple, and the shore
With gems upraised. Divinely wrought,
The threads embossed to swelling billows bore
Strange likeness; you had thought
“They dashed the seaweed on the rocks, or crept
Hoarse murmuring thro’ the thirsty sands.
Five zones, she added. In mid place she kept
With red distinct the lands
“Leaguered with burnings; all the region showed
Scorched into blackness, and the thread
Dry as with sunshine that eternal glowed;
On either hand were spread
“The realms of life, lapt in a milder breath
Kindly to men; and next appear,
On this extreme and that, dull lands of death:
She made them dark and drear
“With year-long frost, and saddened all the hue
With endless winter; last she showed
What seats her sire’s grim brother holds; nor knew
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