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Bearing their wrath to the remotest land 

 Of the frore North, and thence through every wave 

 To where in misty gloom the Cape of storms 

 Looks to the South upon the tempests' home. 



And, crowning all with mild and matchless bloom, 

 Mount Edgcumbe sleeps upon the glassy bay ; 

 Delightful, when the Springtime wakes the flowers 

 And Nature bursts out newly into life ; 

 Delightful, when the Summer gilds the sky 

 And land and sea with animating glow ; 

 Delightful, 'neath the mildly genial form 

 Of Autumn ruling with serener power ; 

 And still delightful, when the timid sun 

 Scarce ventures to illume the winter's day. 

 Sheltered securely from the frosty North 

 And blighting East-wind, flourish kindly here 

 Beneath a climate genial as the South, 

 Ansonian myrtles, consecrated bays, 

 Arbutus, laurustinus and the flowers 

 Of odoriferous orange such as breathe 

 On bright Madeira's health restoring hills, 

 Voluptuous limes that turn the winds to balm, 

 And laurel twining its immortal leaves, 

 (O ! Albion, emblem of thy deathless fame) 

 Around the branches of the Britsh Oak . 



It blooms a paradise of sweetest scenes : 

 The lowly glen, for summer's cooling shade, 

 Freshened with streams and canopied with flowers, 

 Where the queen throstle sings her softest song : 

 The winding valley, with its velvet turf, 

 Dotted with daisies and more beauteous flowers 

 Sprinkled like jewels that profusely fell 

 Where laughing Spring unbound her fragrant hair ; 

 Here brilliant insects pass their sunny life 

 Fluttering with amorous flight from bloom to bloom 

 Precipitous rocks curtained with ivy woven 

 Up from their basements ; Cliffs that gaily rise 

 Like little isles of promise from the sea 

 Festooned with plants of amaranthine bloom 

 And round their brows in every secret nook 

 The violet and primrose gleam like stars : 



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