Conversations introducing poetry chiefly on subjects of natural history. For the use of children and young persons. By Charlotte Smith |
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THE NAUTILUS.
Where southern suns and winds prevail,
And undulate the Summer seas;
The Nautilus expands his sail,
And scuds before the fresh'ning breeze.
And undulate the Summer seas;
The Nautilus expands his sail,
And scuds before the fresh'ning breeze.
Oft is a little squadron seen
Of mimic ships all rigg'd complete;
Fancy might think the fairy queen
Was sailing with her elfin fleet.
Of mimic ships all rigg'd complete;
Fancy might think the fairy queen
Was sailing with her elfin fleet.
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With how much beauty is design'd
Each channell'd bark of purest white!
With orient pearl each cabin lined,
Varying with every change of light.
Each channell'd bark of purest white!
With orient pearl each cabin lined,
Varying with every change of light.
While with his little slender oars,
His silken sail, and tapering mast,
The dauntless mariner explores
The dangers of the watery waste.
His silken sail, and tapering mast,
The dauntless mariner explores
The dangers of the watery waste.
Prepared, should tempests rend the sky,
From harm his fragile bark to keep,
He furls his sail, his oar lays by,
And seeks his safety in the deep,
From harm his fragile bark to keep,
He furls his sail, his oar lays by,
And seeks his safety in the deep,
Then safe on ocean's shelly bed,
He hears the storm above him roar;
Mid groves of coral glowing red,
Or rocks o'erhung with madrepore.
He hears the storm above him roar;
Mid groves of coral glowing red,
Or rocks o'erhung with madrepore.
So let us catch life's favouring gale,
But if fate's adverse winds be rude,
Take calmly in th'adventurous sail,
And find repose in Solitude.
But if fate's adverse winds be rude,
Take calmly in th'adventurous sail,
And find repose in Solitude.
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