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There is a pleasure

in the pathless | woods, 11

on the lonely | shore,

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There is society,

where | none in- | trudes, |

By the deep | sea, | and | music | in its |

roar.

I love not man | the | less, but | nature | more, |

From these our | interviews in which I steal | From all I may be, | or | have been | be- | fore,

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To mingle with the universe, | and feel | What I can ne'er ex- | press, yet cannot | all | con- ceal. 11|17|

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Roll | onthou | deep | and | dark | blue | ocean, | Troll! ||77|

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Ten thousand fleets || sweep over thee in vain, |11|77|

Man marks the earth with | ruin, || his con

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Stops with the shore; upon the watery | plain, |

The wrecks are | all | thy | deed; nor doth re- | main |

A shadow of | man's | ravage, save his |

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own 711 When for a moment, like a | drop of | rain, | He sinks into thy | depths with | bubbling | groan, | Without a grave, un- | knell'd, un| Į

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coffin'd,

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His steps

are not upon thy | paths; | thy |

fields |

And howling

haply | lies |

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Are not a spoil | for | him; thou dost a- | rise |

And | shake him | from thee; || the | vile | strength he wields | |

For earth's de- | struction, || thou dost | all des- | pise,

Spurning him from thy | bosom, to the skies, I And send'st him | shivering in thy | playful spray | to his Gods, 11 where | | |

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His petty | hope, in | some | near | port | or |

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Of rock-built | cities, || bidding | nations |

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Their clay cre- ator the | vain | title | | take,

Of lord of thee, │and | arbiter of | war! |

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These are thy toys, and as the | snowy | flake, | They melt into thy | yeast of waves,

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A- | like the Ar- | mada's | pride, | or | spoils of

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Thy shores are | empires || chang'd in | all |

save thee,

Assyria, Greece,

Carthage, || what are they? |

Rome,

Thy waters | wasted them while they were free,

And many a | tyrant | since: their | shores obey |

The stranger, | slave, | or | savage; || their

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Time writes no | wrinkle on thine | azure |

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brow; |

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Such as cre- | ation's | dawn | be- | held, 1 thou❘rollest | now. ||19|

Thou, glorious | mirror where the Almighty's | form |11|

Glasses itself in | tempests; in all| time,

Calm or con- | vuls'd in | breeze | or | gale, | or storm,

Icing the pole, | or in the | torrid | clime |

boundless, ¦ ¦ endless,

Dark | heaving;

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The monsters of the | deep | are | made: | 171

each zone |

thou | goest | forth | dread |

O-beys thee;
fathomless, a- | lone. |

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And I have loved thee, | Ocean! and my | joy |

Of | youthful | sports | was on thy | breast | to be | Borne, like thy | bubbles, | onward: from a | boy |

I wanton'd with thy | breakers;

they to me | Were a de- light; || and if the freshening |

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LORD THURLOW'S REPLY TO THE DUKE OF GRAFTON.

The Duke had (in the House of Lords) reproached Lord Thurlow with his plebian extraction, and his recent admission to the peerage. Lord Thurlow rose from the woolsack, and advanced slowly to the place from which the Chancellor addresses the House, then fixing his eye upon the Duke, spoke as follows.

My Lords,|| Iam a- | mazed, yes,

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side of him, with- | out| seeing | some peer, who owes his | seat

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The noble duke | cannot |

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look be- | fore him, | be- | hind him,

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owe it to these,

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as to | being the accident

117 To | all these | noble | Lords, the | language of the | noble | Duke |

as it is to

is as applicable | and as in- | sulting
my-self. 1| 1| But I do not | fear

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to meet it single and a- | lone. |11|79 No one venerates the | peerage | more than I do. [1 But my Lords, I must

say 17 that the peerage | so- | licited | me, not

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I the peerage. |11|11|
Naymore, I can and will say,
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that as a | peer of | parliament, ||as|
of this | right | honorable | house, |

speaker
as keeper of the great seal

dian of his majesty's | conscience,

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Lord | high | Chancellor of | England, |17| nay, even in that | character | a- | lone, in | which the noble | duke would | think it an af- | front ។ | ។ to be con- | sidered, but which character | | | none can de- | ny me, 17| as a | MAN,| I am at this moment | as res- | pectable; I I beg leave to add, as much re- | spected, as the proudest | peer|I| now | look | down upon, 19771

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