Touches on The Harp of Nature in the Same Key as Burns' Grand Anthem. By Henry Ellison |
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WRITTEN ON THE SEA-SHORE, ON A STORMY
DAY, 1832. |
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WRITTEN ON THE SEA-SHORE, ON A STORMY DAY, 1832.
Roll on, ye everlasting waves, roll on!The music of your voices only, now
Can charm me! fling your spray upon my brow,
Baptize me thus to Nature; with your tone
Of thunder bid me be free as your own
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Witness, ye winds and lightnings, how I bow
In adoration, as before the throne
Of Him whose viewless Spirit o'er your face,
Ye deeps! now passes; wash from me all trace
Of earth: from head to foot burst over me,
With your sublime ablution! hear, thou sea!
Baptize me “man,” restore me to my place
'Mongst these eternal elements! and ye,
Fit witnesses, with holy jubilee,
Record how Nature gives me back her grace,
The sublime birthright of Humanity!
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