The Year of Wonders.
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111.
With such glad hearts did our despairing Men,
Salute th' appearance of the Princes Fleet:
And each ambitiously would claim the Ken,
That with first eyes did distant safety meet.
With such glad hearts did our despairing Men,
Salute th' appearance of the Princes Fleet:
And each ambitiously would claim the Ken,
That with first eyes did distant safety meet.
112.
The Dutch, who came like greedy Hinds before,
To reap the harvest their ripe Ears did yield,
Now look like those, when rolling Thunders roar,
And sheets of Lightning blast the standing Field.
The Dutch, who came like greedy Hinds before,
To reap the harvest their ripe Ears did yield,
Now look like those, when rolling Thunders roar,
And sheets of Lightning blast the standing Field.
113.
Full in the Princes Passage, hills of Sand,
And dangr'ous Flats, in secret Ambush lay,
Where the false Tides skim or'e the cover'd Land,
And Sea-men with dissembled Depths betray.
Full in the Princes Passage, hills of Sand,
And dangr'ous Flats, in secret Ambush lay,
Where the false Tides skim or'e the cover'd Land,
And Sea-men with dissembled Depths betray.
114.
The wily Dutch, who, like fall'n Angels, fear'd
This new Messia's coming, there did wait,
And round the verge their braving Vessels steer'd,
To tempt his Courage with so fair a Bait.
The wily Dutch, who, like fall'n Angels, fear'd
This new Messia's coming, there did wait,
And round the verge their braving Vessels steer'd,
To tempt his Courage with so fair a Bait.
115. But
