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cated, is still standing, but all in ruins. The nearby house of the 
Admiral, where Moore was entertained, has disappeared, though its 
foundations remain. 
Figure 17.—St. George’s; the Public Square. The old St. George’s Hotel is at 
the right; the tree is a ‘‘ Pride of India,” without its foliage, in March. 
Phot. 1901. 
It is not known where Moore had his living rooms, but it was cer- 
tainly in St. George’s,—not at Walsingham, as many suppose. The 
lines of one of his poems,* in which he refers to the nearby boats 
and barks as seen from his room, would well have applied to many 
places in St. George’s, but not to Walsingham, as also the statement, 
in a letter to his mother, that he could plainly see “six islands” from 
his window. He expressly states that the admiral had invited him 
to sit at his table. 
* The following are the descriptive verses referred to :—- 
** Close to my wooded bank below, 
In glassy calm the waters sleep, 
And to the sunbeam proudly show 
The coral rocks they love to steep. 
The fainting breeze of morning fails; 
The drowsy boat moves slewly past, 
And I can almost touch its sails 
As loose they flap around the mast. 
The noontide sun a splendor pours 
That lights up all its leafy shores ; 
While his own heaven, its clouds and beams, 
So pictured in the waters lie, 
That each small bark, in passing, seems 
To float along a burning sky.” 
