Tasso and the Sisters Tasso's Spirit: The Nuptials of Juno: The Skeletons: The Spirits of the Ocean. Poems, By Thomas Wade |
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And deeply, deeply down the Sea
They hurried onward mournfully:—
They past o'er cities which the wave
Had folded in its boundless grave,
And look'd on many a lonely hall
That once rang loud with festival,
And chambers, now in ruins sunk,
Where Beauty smil'd and Love grew drunk:
They saw the sea-horse in his lair,
Nor broke upon his slumbers there;
They past the Monster of the Water,
Whilst resting from his work of slaughter;
Leviathans they mark'd reposing;
They saw the eyes of dolphins closing,
And view'd each lesser tribe that dwells
In Ocean, sleeping in its cells;—
From its fierce lords a moment free—
Those Tyrants of the billow'd Sea.
They hurried onward mournfully:—
They past o'er cities which the wave
Had folded in its boundless grave,
And look'd on many a lonely hall
That once rang loud with festival,
And chambers, now in ruins sunk,
Where Beauty smil'd and Love grew drunk:
They saw the sea-horse in his lair,
Nor broke upon his slumbers there;
They past the Monster of the Water,
Whilst resting from his work of slaughter;
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They saw the eyes of dolphins closing,
And view'd each lesser tribe that dwells
In Ocean, sleeping in its cells;—
From its fierce lords a moment free—
Those Tyrants of the billow'd Sea.
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