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...her rage, 
To other climes and other seas withdraws, 
To rouse the Russian on the desp'rate Turk 
There to conflict by Danube and the straits 
Which join the Euxine to th' Egean Sea. 
Britannia holds the empire of the waves, 
And welcomes ev'ry bold adventurer 
To view the wonders of old Ocean's reign. 
Far to the east our fleets on traffic sail, 
And to the west thro' boundless seas which not 
Old Rome nor Tyre nor mightier Carthage knew. 
Daughter of commerce, from the hoa...Read more of this...

...slowly forms the firmer mind,
   Treasuring the look it cannot find,
The words that are not heard again.
 
XIX
The Danube to the Severn gave
   The darken'd heart that beat no more;
   They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.
 
There twice a day the Severn fills;
   The salt sea-water passes by,
   And hushes half the babbling Wye,
And makes a silence in the hills.
 
The Wye is hush'd nor moved along,
   And hush'd my deepest grief ...Read more of this...

...Far from the Rappahannock, the silent
Danube moves along toward the sea.
The brown and green Nile rolls slowly
Like the Niagara's welling descent.
Tractors stood on the green banks of the Loire
Near where it joined the Cher.
The St. Lawrence prods among black stones
And mud. But the Arno is all stones.
Wind ruffles the Hudson's
Surface. The Irawaddy is overflowing.
But the yellowish, gray Tiber
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...Milder yet thy snowy breezes 
Pour on yonder tented shores, 
Where the Rhine's broad billow freezes, 
Or the Dark-brown Danube roars. 
Oh, winds of winter! List ye there 
To many a deep and dying groan; 
Or start, ye demons of the midnight air, 
At shrieks and thunders louder than your own. 
Alas! Even unhallowed breath 
May spare the victim fallen low; 
But man will ask no truce of death,- 
No bounds to human woe....Read more of this...

...ivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the
 Pearl; 
I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the
 Guadalquiver
 flow;
I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder; 
I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po; 
I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay. 

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I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India; 
I see the falling of the Ganges over...Read more of this...

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 ("Quoi! ne pouvez-vous vivre ensemble?") 
 
 {XXXV., June, 1828.} 


 The River Deity upbraids his Daughters, the contributary Streams:— 
 
 Ye daughters mine! will naught abate 
 Your fierce interminable hate? 
 Still am I doomed to rue the fate 
 That such unfriendly neighbors made? 
 The while ye might, in peaceful cheer, 
 Mirror u...Read more of this...

...d gems, of which you're fond. 
 
 To you the Cyprus temples 
 Dare not bar or close the doors; 
 For you the mighty Danube sends 
 The choicest of its stores. 
 
 Fear you the Grecian maidens, 
 Pallid lilies of the isles? 
 Or the scorching-eyed sand-rover 
 From Baalbec's massy piles? 
 
 Compared with yours, oh, daughter 
 Of King Solomon the grand, 
 What are round ebon bosoms, 
 High brows from Hellas' strand? 
 
 You're neither blanched nor blackened, 
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...for help. In those places, where tanks
Were bivouacked in shade on their way back
From some routine exercise along
The Danube, even food was scarce that year.
And the languages shifted for no clear reason
From two hard quarries of Slavic into German,
Then to a shred of Latin spliced with oohs
And hisses. Even when I tried the simplest phrases,
The peasants passing over those uneven stones
Paused just long enough to look up once,
Uncomprehendingly. Then they turned
Quickly aw...Read more of this...

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