The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-04-18

To which the stars did reverence as it passed.
So he through learning, and through fancy took
His flight sublime; and on the oitiest top
OF Fame's dread mountain sat; not soled, and worn,
As if he from the earth had labored up;
But bird of heavenly plumage fair,
He looked, which down from higher regions came,
And perched it there, to see what lay beneath
Great man! the nations gazed, and wondered much,
And praised: and many called his evil good.
Wits wrote in favor of his wick edness;
And kings to do him honor took delight.
Thus full of titles, fattery, honor fame;
Beyond desire, beyond ambition full -
He died-he died of what Of wretchedness.
Drank every cup of Joy, heard every trump
OF fame; drank early, deeply drank drank draughts
That common millions might have quenched-hen died
OF thirst, because there to drink.
His goddess, Nature, wooed, embraced, enjoyed
Fell from his arms, abhorred; his passions died;
Died all but dreary solitary pride;
And all his sympathies In beng died.
As some ll-guded bark, well built and tall
Which angry tides cast out desert shore,
And then retiring, left it there to rot
And moulder in the winds and rains of heaven;
So he cut from the sympathies Of life,
And cast ashore from pleasures bosterous surge
wandering, weary, worn, and wretched thing;
Scorched, and desolate, and blasted sou
gloomy wilderness of dying thought
Repined, and groaned and withered from the EARTH
The following his description of the Ocean when
moned the heaving of its pillows and render up its
dead.'
Great Ocean too, that morning, thou the call
OF restitution hcardst, and reverently
To the last trumpets voice in silence listened!
Great ocean, strongest of creations sons!
Unconquerable, unreposed, untired;
That rolled the wild, profound, eternal bass,
In Natures anthem, ana made music, such
As pleased the of God Original,
Unmarried, mfaded work of Deity;
And unburesqued by mortas puny skill.
From age to age enduring and unchanged;
Majestcal, nmtabe, vast,
Loud utterng satire day and night each
Succeeding race, and little pompous work
Of man. Unfallen, religious, holy sea!
Thou bowedst thy glorious head to fearedst none
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Thy Maker-only worthy to receive
Thy great obeisance. Undiscovered sea!
Into thy dark, unknown, mysterious caves,
And secret haunts, unfathomably deep,
Beneath all visible retired, went,
And again, to tell the wonders there
Tremendous sea! what time thou lifted up
Thy waves on high and with thy winds and storms
Strange pastime took, and shook thy mighty sides
Indignantly-the pride of naves fell;
Beyond the arm of help, unheard, unseen,
Sunk friend and foe, with all their wealth and war;
And on thy Shores men of thousand tribes
Polite and barbarous trembling STOOD amazed,
COMPOUNDED, terrified; and thought vast thoughts
Of ruin boundlessness, omnipotence,
infnude, eternity; and thought,
And wondered STILL and grasped and grasped and gasped
Again beyond her reach exerting all
The soul to take thy great idea in,
TIE comprehend incomprehensibe;
And wondered more, and felt their littleness
Selfpurifymg, unpolluied seal
Lover Interchangeable! thy faithful breast
For ever heaving to the lovely moon,
That like shy and holy virgin, robed
In sanity white, walked nightly in the heavens,
And to thy everlasting serenade
Gave gracious audience; was wooed in vain.
That morning. thou, that sumbered not before,
Nor slept, great Ocean! laid thy waves TO rest,