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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... VAST deep dome wherein the shining fires Of space hung panting, as though keen desires Burn'd in them to spring forth from the blind force That held them as in leash; a comet's course Blazed in the east, and constellations flamed As through the night they strode; the famed Canopus, whom on Syrian wastes afar Men once had worshipp'd, and the fiery star Aldebaran, and, sword-girt, great Orion Whose light feared not the moon's--all these outshone With splendour from dark heaven, and many more Which mariners know well when drifting o'er The far south seas: the Southern Cross agleam With fire shone high, and, as in some fierce dream A tigress pants, the pulsing star men know As Sirius, in ever changing glow, Blood-red, and purple, green, and blue, and white, Flamed on the swarthy bosom of the night. II. As though the Power that made the Nautilus A living glory on the perilous Wild seas to roam, had from the utmost deep Call'd a vast flawless pearl from out its deep And carved it crescentwise, exceeding fair,--So seem'd the crescent moon that thro' the air With motionless motion glided from the west, And sailing onward ever seem'd at rest. III. Below, the wide waste of the ocean lay. League upon league of moonled waters, spray And foam and salt sea-send; a world of sea By strong winds buffeted. And furtively At times a shadow loomed above the waves Only to fade, as men say out of graves Troop spirits who flee back at mortal gaze; This shadow was a ship, which many days Ago had pass'd the doleful straits where sleep The storms that rage and ravin on the deep. She seem'd a bird, black, with tremendous wings Poised high above her, a condor-bird that brings Death in her sweep. Slowly the shadow grew Distinct, and the stars seem'd more faint or few, And the waves waxe...
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