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Rh Descried at sunrise an emerging prow

Lifting the cool-haired creepers stealthily,

The fringes of a southward-facing brow

Among the Ægean isles;

And saw the merry Grecian coaster come,

Freighted with amber grapes, and Chian wine,

Green bursting figs, and tunnies steeped in brine,

And knew the intruders on his ancient home,—

The young light-hearted masters of the waves,—

And snatched his rudder, and shook out more sail,

And day and night held on indignantly

O'er the blue Midland waters with the gale,

Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily,

To where the Atlantic raves

Outside the western straits, and unbent sails

There where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam,

Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come;

And on the beach undid his corded bales.

THYRSIS.18 , to commemorate the author's friend, , who died at Florence, 1861.

changed is here each spot man makes or fills!

In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same;

The village street its haunted mansion lacks,

And from the sign is gone Sibylla's name,

And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks.—

Are ye too changed, ye hills?