NEBULA TO MAN 
But though in reptile empires are their lines, 
And mammal martyrs fall, as Fate assigns, 
Like Hebrews in a land of Philistines, 230 
Still presses on the little chosen race, 
With risks to run, but ne'er to lose its place. 
And as from moist and sullen looking morn, 
A glorious day of sunshine oft is born ; 
So though but doubtful skies these creatures see, 235 
Their day, when it breaks forth, may glorious be. 
A Baltic sea now far afield is riding 
Across Europa's northern lands subsiding. 
Germania by its flow is being swept, 
And down to Midland waters has it crept. 240 
Of Muscovy large parts are being o'errun, 
And sinking plains no more salute the sun. 
Siberia, Lesser Asia, Persia too 
And India's lands all sink in part from view 
As far the junctioned floods their ways pursue. 245 
But though Europa looks as if 'twould be 
Tne bed and playground of encroaching sea, 
All is not gone : for higher parts obtrude 
Their heads as banks and isles above the flood : 
Where threatened life in safe asylum stays, 250 
As if enarked, to hope for better days. 
Britannia still holds dry some western lands 
One with Hibernia, whose Atlantic strands 
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