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And dearer far than Caesar's palace-donoie, His cavern-shelter, and his cottage-home.

O'er China's garden-fields and peopled floods; In California's pathless world of woods ; Round Andes' heights, whereWinter, from his throne. Looks down in scorn upon the summer zone ; By the gay borders of Bermuda's isles. Where Spring with everlasting verdure smiles ; On pure Madeira's vine-robed hills of health ; In Java's swamps of pestilence and wealth ; Where Babel stood, where wolves and jackals drink, Midst weeping willows, on Euphrates' brink ; On Carmel's crest ; by Jordan's reverend stream. Where Canaan's glories vanish'd like a dream ; Wlierc Greece, a spectre, haunts her heroes' graves, And Rome's v;i>t ruins darken Tiber's waves ; Where broken-hearted Switzerland bewails Her subject mountains and dishonour'd vale* ;

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