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For, on the wave, her battle had been won.

Which to the Ocean-Queen that day had bowed.

Before their God they gathered on the seas.

Some bower inviolate 'midst England's vales?

Rose on high hearts, that now with love gush'd o'er.

The wild, brief signs of human victory!

Making a minster of that silent deep!

Oh! to the banner and the shrine be true!' The Winter's Wreath, pp. 53, 54.