Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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THE SUEZ CANAL, OR THE MARRIAGE OF THE
RED SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN. |
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THE SUEZ CANAL, OR THE MARRIAGE OF THE RED SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN.
With high-symbolic and expressive rite,Great Venice linked her Fates unto the Sea,
With ring and Holy Wedlock, so to be
As one, for better and for worse unite.
And long, as bride and spouse, they took delight
In other each: as Rome, with Peter's key,
In Spirituals, she could bind and free
In Temporals, by her amphibious might.
But She of Earth with Ocean ill may mate;
Sea-change came o'er her, and her great spouse sought
A Daughter of the Waters, whose high state
And having Oceanic union brought.
To his new Indian bride he stretched his great
Right azure hand, troth with world-changes fraught!
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