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Far from the western cliffs he cast his eye O'er the wide ocean stretching to the sky: In calm magnificence the sun declined, And left a paradise of clouds behind: Proud at his feet, with pomp of pearl and gold, The billows in a sea of glory roll'd.
—Ah! on this sea of glory might I sail, 'Track the bright sun, and pierce the eternal veil 'That hides those lands, beneath Hesperian skies, 'Whcre day-light sojourns till our morrow rise!'
Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone, The eye of evening, brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut to rest:'Whither, O, golden Venus! art thou fled? 'Not in the ocean-chambers lies thy bed; 'Round the dim world thy glittering chariot drawn 'Pursues the twilight, or precedes the dawn;
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