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456 CLXXVI.

Upon the blue Symplegades:N32 long years—

Long, though not very many—since have done

Their work on both; some suffering and some tears

Have left us nearly where we had begun:

Yet not in vain our mortal race hath run—

We have had our reward—and it is here,—

That we can yet feel gladdened by the Sun,

And reap from Earth—Sea—joy almost as dear

As if there were no Man to trouble what is clear.

CLXXVII.

Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place,

With one fair Spirit for my minister,