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altars but its own), Thy Church, majestic, but not sumptuous, 520 Sober, but not austere, with lenity Tempering her fair pre-eminence, sustains Her liberal charities, yet decent state. The tempest is abroad; the fearful sounds Of armament, and gathering tumult, fill The ear of anxious Europe. If, O GOD! It is thy will, that in the storm of death, When we have lifted the brave sword in vain, We too should sink, sustain us in that hour! Meantime be mine, in cheerful privacy, 530 To wait Thy will, not sanguine, nor depressed; In even course, nor splendid, nor obscure, To steal through life among my villagers! The hum of the discordant crowd, the buzz Of faction, the poor fly that threads the air Self-pleased, the wasp that points its tiny sting Unfelt, pass by me like the idle wind That I regard not; while the Summer Sylph, That whispers through the laurels, wakes the thought Of quietude, and home-felt happiness, 540 And independence, in a land I love! [114] Inscribed to William Sotheby, Esq. [115] The last point of Cornwall. [116] Dr Henry Bowles, on the medical staff sent to Gibraltar during the pestilential fever there. [117] South coast of Portugal. [118] An urn is erected to his memory in Bremhill Garden. [119] AEolian harp. [120] Simoom, Sameel, destructive winds in the deserts of Asia. See Bruce, &c. [121] Air-pump. [122] Fixed stars. [123] So the Arabs say, speaking of the stupendous monuments in the deserts. [124] Title of the Persian Emperor. [125] Aurora Borealis. [126] From Josephus. [127] A curious effect of vision in the air from refraction, by which objects appear distinct, and as real, which are below the horizon. This often appears on the coast of Italy, and has been sometimes observed from our shores, where a line of the opposite coast appears. [128] The Fata Morgana are all explained in books; the effect is ascribed to reflection and refraction, as one alone will not correspond with the effects. The time when they occur is not the evening; but the looming in our country is towards the evening. [129] The Mirage: see Denon. [130] Green spots in the desert. [131] Wandsdike, on the Marlborough Downs, opposite. THE HARP OF HOEL.[132] It was a high and holy sight,
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