Thou awful sea!—upon this shingly beach
Of Aldborough I pace:—my gazing eye
Thy world of waters lost in the dim sky
Admiring, and thy echoing waves, that teach,
In voice of thunder, more than tongue can preach;
The knell of ages past and passing by;
And claim their ancient Empire o’er the dry
And solid Earth; each animating each.
Of towns long sunk, o’er which thy wild waves roar,
Of sea to land, of land to ocean turn’d,
I muse: and mourn, that who could amplest pour
Homeric tones on thy resounding shore
Porson is dead!—That sea of Grecian lore
Unbounded, in the abyss of fate inurn’d.
(Capel Lofft)
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