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At Sea Off The Isle Of Man, By: William Wordsworth

June 15, 2023 by Editors

At Sea Off The Isle Of Man, By: William Wordsworth

Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strong
And doubts and scruples seldom teased the brain,
That no adventurer’s bark had power to gain
These shores if he approached them bent on wrong;
For, suddenly up-conjured from the Main,
Mists rose to hide the Land that search, though long
And eager, might be still pursued in vain.
O Fancy, what an age was ‘that’ for song!
That age, when not by ‘laws’ inanimate,
As men believed, the waters were impelled,
The air controlled, the stars their courses held;
But element and orb on ‘acts’ did wait
Of ‘Powers’ endued with visible form, instinct
With will, and to their work by passion linked.

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