Page:The West Indies, and Other Poems.djvu/18

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Far from the western cliffs he cast his eye O'er the wide ocean stretching to the sky: In cahn magnificence the sun dtclined, And left a paradise of clouds behind: Proud at his feet, with pomp of pearl and gold, The byiows in a sea of glory roll'd.

  • — Ah! on this sea of glory might I sail,

' Track the bright sun, and pierce the eternal veil ' That hides those lands, beneath Hesperian skies, ' Wlicre day-light sojourns till our morrow rise!'

Thoughtful he wandcr'd on the beach alone; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone, The eye of evening, brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut to rest:

  • Whither, O, golden Venus! art thou fled?
  • Not in the ocean-chambers lies thy bed;
  • Round the dim world thy glittering chariot drawn
  • Pursues the twilight, or precedes the dawn;

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