The Sylphs of the Seasons, with other poems

Allston, Washington (1779-1843)

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Or feeling, as the storm increas'd,
The love of terror nerve thy breast,
Didst venture to the coast;
To see the mighty war-ship leap
From wave to wave upon the deep,
Like chamois goat from steep to steep,
'Till low in valley lost;

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