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Glimmers the skiff, faintly discern'd awhile, Then lost in shadow.

Contemplation here, High on her throne of rock, aloof may sit, And bid recording Memory unfold Her scroll voluminous—bid her retrace The period, when from Neustria's hostile shore The Norman launch'd his galleys, and the bay O'er which that mass of ruin frowns even now In vain and sullen menace, then received The new invaders; a proud martial race, Of Scandinavia the undaunted sons, Whom Dogon, Fier-a-bras, and Humfroi led To conquest: while Trinacria to their power Yielded her wheaten garland; and when thou,