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That joys mankind the arbitrary Turk 135
Delights not : insolent of rule, he spreads
Thraldom and desolation o'er his realms.
Another path to Scythia's wide domains
Commerce discovers : the Livonian gulf
Receives her sails, and leads them to the port 140
Of rising Petersburg, whose splendid streets
Swell with the webs of Leeds ; the Cossac there,
The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales
In crowds resort, and their warm'd limbs enfold,
Delighted ; and the hardy Samoïd, 145
Rough with the stings of frost, from his dark caves
Ascends, and thither hastes, ere winter's rage
O'ertake his homeward step ; and they that dwell
Along the banks of Don's and Volga's streams,
And borderers of the Caspian, who renew 150
That ancient path to India's climes which fill'd
With proudest affluence the Colchian state.
Many have been the ways to those renown'd
Luxuriant climes of Indus, early known
To Memphis, to the port of wealthy Tyre, 155
To Tadmor, beauty of the wilderness,
Who down along Euphrates sent her sails,
And sacred Salem, when her numerous fleets
From Ezion-geber pass'd th' Arabian gulf.
But later times, more fortunate, have found 160
O'er ocean's open wave a surer course,
Sailing the western coast of Afric's realms,
Of Mauritania, and Nigritian tracks,
And islands of the Orcades, the bounds,
On the Atlantic brine, of ancient trade, 165
But not of modern, by the virtue led
Of Gama and Columbus. The whole globe
Is now of commerce made the scene immense,
Which daring ships frequent, associated