As when the mafters of the lance affail,
In Hyperborean feas, the flumbering whale
Soon as the javelins pierce his fealy hide,
With anguilh flung, he cleaves the downward
In vain he flies no friends
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His life-blood gushes thro' th' inflaming wound 1
The wounded bark, thus fmarting with her pain,
Scuds from purfuing waves along the main,
While, dafh'd apart by her dividing prow,
Like burning adamant the waters glow.
Her joints forget their firm elaftic tone
Her long keel trembles, and her timbers groan.
Upheav'd behind her, in tremendous height,
The billows frown, with fearful radiance bright!
Now fhivering, o'er the top-maft wave the rides,
While deep beneath the enormous gulf divides.
Now, launching headlong down the horrid vale,
She hears no more the roaring of the gale;
Till up the dreadful height again the flies,
Trembling beneath the current of the fkies.
As that rebellious angel who from heaven,
To regions of eternal pain was driven;
When dreadlefs he forfook the Stygian fhore,
The diffant realins of Eden to explore;
Here, on fulphureous clouds fublime upheav'd,
With daring wing
wing the infernal air he cleav'd,
There in fome hideous gulf descending prone,
Far in the raylee vone bring mountain's height,
void of night was thrown
Then down the black abyfs precipitates her flight.
The mafts, around whofe tops the whirlwinds fing
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The watchful pilots different pofts affume.
-Albert and Rodmond, station'd on the rear,
With warning voice direct each timoneer.
High on the prow the guard Arion keeps,
To run the cruifers wandering o'er the deeps.
Were ever he moves Palemon itill attends
As if on him his only hope depends;

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High o'er its fummit, thro' the gloom of night, Lorg/
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In dire amazement riveted they ftand,

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But foon beyond this fhore the vellel flies,

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So from the fangs of her infatiate foe,

O'er the broad champain feuds the trembling toe.
That danger paft, reflects a feeble joy ;

But foon returning fears their hope deftroy, isomeri
Thus, in th' Atlantic, oft' the failors eyes,"
While melting in the reign of fofter fkies,
Some Alp of ice, from polar regions blown,
Hail the glad influence of a warmer zone:
Its frozen cliffs attemper'd gales fupply:
In cooling ftream th' aerial billows fly:
Awhile deliver'd from the fcorching heat,
In gentler tides the feverish pulfes beat.

So, when their trembling velfel pafs'd this iffe, or [ 'Such vifionary joys the crew beguile: Th' illufive meteors of a lifelefs fire!

Too foon they kindle, and too foon expire!" **
Say, Memory! thou, from whofe unerring tongue
Inftructive flows the animated fong;
What regions now the flying fhip furround?
Regions of old, thro' all the world renown'd
That, once the poet's theme, the Mufe's boaft,"
Now lie in ruins: in oblivion loft!

Did they, whofe fad diftress these lays deplore.
Unfkill'd in Grecian or in Roman lore,
Unconscious pafs each famous circling fhore?
They did; for blafted in the barren fhade,"
Here, all too foon, the buds of fcience fade:
Sad oceans genius, in untimely hour,

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Withers the bloom of every fpringing flower, kad Here fancy droops, while fullen cloud and ftcrm.

The generous climate of the foul deform.

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Then if, among the wandering naval trainin One ftripling exil'd from th' Aonian plain, oh anot Had e'er, entranc'd in fancy's foothing dream, Approach'd to tafle the fweet Caftalian Stream,

(Since thote /ubrious freams, with power divine,

To purer fenfe th' attemper'd foul refined)
His heart with liberal commerce here unmoleft,
Alien to joy! fincerer grief poffefs'd.
Yet on the youthful mind th' imprellion qaft
Of ancient glory, thall for ever laft.
There, all unquench'd by cruel fortune's ire,
It glows with unextinguishable fire.

Immortal Athens firft, in ruin spread,
Contiguous lies at Port Liono's head.

Great fource of fcience! whofe immortal name.
Stands foremost in the glorious roll of fame.
Here Godlike Socrates and Plato Shone,
And, firm to truth, eternal honour won.
The firft in virtue's caufe his life refing'd,
By Heav'en pronoune'd ine wifeft of mankind
The laft foretold the fpark of vital fire,
The foul's pure effence, never could expire.
Here Solon dwelt, the philofophic fage,
That fled Pifftratus' vindictive rage.
Juft Ariftides here maintain'd the cause,
Whofe facred precepts shine thro' Solon's laws.
Of all her towering ftructures, now alone
Some fcatter'd columns fland, with weeds o'ergrown,
The wandering franger, near the port defcries
A milk-white lion of ftupendous fize;
Unknown the fculptor, marble is the frame:
And hence et haven drew its name.
Next, in the Gulf of Engia, Corinth lies,

Whofe gorgeous fabricks feem'd to ftrike the fkies;
Whom, tho' by tyrant victors oft' fubdu'd,

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Greece, Egypt, Rome, with awful wonder view'd, i Her name, for Pilus' heavenly art renown'd*,

Spread like foliage which her pillars crown'd.

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But now, in fatal defolation laid.
Oblivion o'er it, draws a difmal fhade.
Then farther weftward is Marca's land,

Fair Mifitra! thy modern turrets fland.magaztetankin k Ah! who, unmov'd with facred woe, can tell him di That here great Lacedæmon's glory fell?

Here once the flourished, at whofe trumpet's found
War burft his chains and nations fhook around. T
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Thro' all Achaia bade her thunders roar
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And Greece difmay'd, beheld the chief draw near
He, at Thermopyla's immortal plain, a speed !!
His force repell'd with Sparta's glorious train.
Tall Oeta faw, the tyrant's conquer'd bands,

In gafping millions, bleed on hoftile lands, and
Thus vanquifh'd Afa trembling heard thy name
And Thebes and Athens ficken'd at thy fame most like
Thy ftate, fupported by Lycurgus' laws, dbw angk
Drew, like thine arms, fuperlative applaused; no'o zeż
E'en great Epaminondas frove in vain
To curb that fpirit with a Theban chain.
But ah! how low her free-born spirit now:
Her abject fons to haughty tyrants bow
A falfe, degenerate, fuperftitious race,
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Not diftant far, Arcadia's bleft domains
Peloponnefus' circling fhore contains.
Thrice happy foil? where ftill ferenely gay,
Indulgent Flora breath'd perpetual May 15
Where buxom Ceres taught the obfequious field,
Rich without art, fpontaneous gifts to yield.
Then with fome rural nymph completely bleit,
While tranfport glow'd in each enamour'd breaff,
Each faithful fhepherd told his tender pain, b
And fung of fylvan fports in artlefs ftram.

Now

Now, fad reverfe! Oppreflion's iron hand
Enllaves her natives, and defpoils the land."
In lawless rapine bred, a fanguine train
With midnight ravage fcour th' uncultur'd plain.
Weftward of thefe, beyond the Ifthmus, lies
The long loft ifle of Ithacus the wife;
Where fair Penelope her abfent lord.

Full twice ten years with faithful love deplor'd
Tho' many a princely heart her beauty won,
She, guarded only by her fripling fon,
Each bold attempt of fuitor-kings repell'd,
And undefil'd the nuptial contract held.
With various arts to win her love they toil'd.
But all their wiles by virtuous fraud the foil'd.
True to her vows, and refolutely chafte
The beauteous princess triumph'd at the last.

Argos in Greece forgotten and unknown,
Still feems her cruel fortune to bemoan:
Argos, whofe monarch led the Grecian hofts,
Far o'er the Agian main to Dardan coafts.
Unhappy prince! who, on a hoftile fhore,
Toil, peril, anguish, ten long winters bore.
And when to native realms reflor'd at laft,
To reap the harveft of thy labours paft.
A perjur'd friend, alas! and faithlefs wife,
There facrific'd to impious luft thy life!→→
Faft by Arcadia fretch these defert plains.
And o'er the land a gloomy tyrant reigns.

Next the fair ifle of Helena is feen,
Where adverfe winds detain'd the Spartan queen:
For whom in arms combin'd the Grecian holls,
With vengeance fir'd, invaded Phyrgia's coaft;
For whom fo long they labour'd to destroy››
The facred turrets of imperial Troyect
Here, driven by Juno's rage, the hapless dame,
Forlorn of heart, from ruin 'd lion came, :

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