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ATLANTIS.
VI.
Such heavenly help the kneeling people sought;
At every shrine they breathed their reverent vows:
When, borne from far, on rising blasts, they caught
The noise of swelling floods and cleaving prows.
Uplifted they their earth-abasèd brows,
With breath that scarce, for wonder, heaved the breast;
As when his path the sparry iceberg plows
Through drifting deeps, fast rending crest from crest,
So that far-voyaged fleet the waters did molest.
Such heavenly help the kneeling people sought;
At every shrine they breathed their reverent vows:
When, borne from far, on rising blasts, they caught
The noise of swelling floods and cleaving prows.
Uplifted they their earth-abasèd brows,
With breath that scarce, for wonder, heaved the breast;
As when his path the sparry iceberg plows
Through drifting deeps, fast rending crest from crest,
So that far-voyaged fleet the waters did molest.
VII.
And scarlet pennons floated on the gales,
And yellow flags were waving in the sun;
On glittering yards full whitely swung the sails—
Bay-wreathed were they, as Victory, lightly won,
Already smiled and told of battles done;
Loud were the singing crews, the dense array
And scarlet pennons floated on the gales,
And yellow flags were waving in the sun;
On glittering yards full whitely swung the sails—
Bay-wreathed were they, as Victory, lightly won,
Already smiled and told of battles done;
Loud were the singing crews, the dense array
