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Page 50 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Page 82 - Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Page 151 - LOVE thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought.
Page 142 - Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Page 56 - And now, my good friends, I've a fine opportunity To obfuscate you all by sea terms with impunity, And talking of " caulking" And " quarter-deck walking," " Fore and aft," And "abaft," '• Hookers," " barkeys," and " craft,
Page 72 - UNFATHOMABLE Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore ; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?
Page 56 - But, Reader, I scorn it— the fact is, I fear, To be candid, I can't make these matters so clear As Marryat, or Cooper, or Captain Chamier, Or Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, who brought up the rear Of the ' Nauticals,' just at the end of the year Eighteen thirty-nine — (how Time flies ! — Oh, dear !) — With a well-written preface, to make it appear That his play, the ' Sea-Captain,
Page 64 - ... which were long, He had twenty-four packs — Which was coming it strong, Yet I state but the facts; And we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are- dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Page 147 - From ills that others fear. Still let us love this spot of earth — The best where'er we roam — And duly estimate the worth Of our dear English home.
Page 122 - The space between decks was so low, that it was impossible to stand upright in it, and so crowded, that there was no room to lie down.