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VII. WILLIAM OF WAINFLEET.
The wide horizon helped his growing mind,The changing pageant of the bannered skies
Forbade him trust gay-seeming enterprise,
He breathed in wit with every salted wind;
And yonder sea, by its own mounds confined,
Chaining itself with its own ministries,
Was fit instructress how, when passions rise,
Of their own strength they should their raging bind
Oft in the marsh, beneath a level sun,
He sought with simple crook his father's sheep;
Or, boyish, traced his Magdalens in the sand.
The keen-faced prelate lies in marble sleep,
But Cherwell's stream four hundred years has run
In vain against the walls his wisdom planned.
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