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Rh On Africa's inhuman shore, To the wrecked seaman rough and drear, Thy sacred name I o'er and o'er Repeated, which the waves to hear Back to the Spanish regions bore. On the far Pole's dark furious sea, By the Batavian's energy Bridled, again thy name was heard: Heard it the Rhone, the foamy Rhine, The Pyrenæan heights the word Repeated with the Apennine, And in Vesuvius' burning cave Then first the sound the echos gave.

the dark gloomy borders of the Seine, Where with black clouds around the heaven extends, The earth o'erwhelm'd with snow, the heart with pain, Thee thy unhappy friend his greeting sends;