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LAND AND SEA |
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XXII
LAND AND SEA
(AFTER MRS C. MURA'S “IDYLL” IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY)
A bight of Grecian waters sapphirine,Where woody slopes shelve gently to the seas,
And Satyrs ambushed by Oreades
Peep forth astonied from the screening pine.
For foaming furrows blanch the azure brine
Where Tritons plunge and Nereids wheel at ease;
And fain the admiring Fauns would be as these,
Who would for earth the watery realm resign.
Sometimes a Satyr, to the margin crept,
Pelts a near-gliding nymph with shell or sand,
Or trump of Triton peals an Oread's praise.
But Law is Deity, and will be kept;
Foot travels not the sea, or fin the land;
And scaly folk and sylvan pause at gaze.
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