Patriotism in Poetry And Prose Being Selected Passages From Lectures And Patrio
Patriotism in Poetry And Prose Being Selected Passages From Lectures And Patrio
James Edward Murdoch
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A sudden wonder seized on land and bay. And Tumult with her train was there to follow, For still the stranger kept its seaward way, Looking a great leviathan blowing spray. Seeking with steady course his ocean wallow. And still it came, and largen'd on the sight, — A floating monster, — ugly and. Gigantic, — In shape a wave, with long and shelving height, As if a mighty billow, heaved at night, Should turn to iron in the mid- Atlantic. Then ship and fortress gazed with anxious stare, Until the ...Cumberland's cannon, silence breaking, Thunder'd its guardian challenge, "Who comes there?'' But, like a rock-flung echo in the air. The shot rebounded, no impression making. Then roar'd a broadside: — though directed well. On, like a nightmare, moved the shape defiant! The tempest of our pounding shot and shell, Crumbled to harmless nothing, thickly fell From off the sounding armor of the giant ! THE ArOSTROniE. 65 Unchcck'd, still onward through the storm it broke, With beak directed at the vessel's centre, — Then through the constant cloud of sulphurous .
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