The Poetical Works of William Falconer
by William Falconer (9781458901064)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIRST CANTO: THE SCENE Of WHICH LIES NEAE. THE CITY OP CANDIA. TIME, ABOUT FOUB DAYS AND A HALF. ARGUMENT. 1. Retrospect of the voyage. Arrival at Candia. State of that island. Season of the year described.?IT. Character of the master, and his officers, Albert, liodmond, and Arion. Palemon, son to the owner of the ship. Attachment of Palemon to Anna, the daughter of Albert.?III. Noon. Palemon's history.?IV. Sun-set. Midnight. Arion'a dream. Unmoor by moonlight. Morning. Sun's azimuth taken. Beautiful appearance of the ship, as seen by the natives from the shore. THE SHIPWRECK. CANTO I. SHIP from Egypt, o'er the deep impelled By guiding winds, her course for Venice held. Of famed Britannia were the gallant crew, And from that isle her name the vessel drew; The wayward steps of fortune they pursued, And sought in certain ills imagined good: Though cautioned oft her slippery path to shun, Hope still with promised joys allured them on; And, while they listened to her winning lore, a The softer scenes of peace could please no more: Long absent they from friends and native homo The cheerless ocean were inured to roam; Yet heaven, in pity to severe distress, Had crowned each painful voyage with success; Still to compensate toils and hazards past Restored them to maternal plains at last. Thrice had the sun, to rule the varying year, Across the equator rolled his flaming sphere, Since last the vessel spread her ample sail From Albion's coast, obsequious to the gale; 20 Sho o'er the spacious flood, from shore to shore Unwearying wafted her commercial store; The richest ports of Afric she had viewed, Thence to fair Italy her course pursued; Had left behind Trinacria's burning isle, And visited the margin of the Nile: And now, that winter deepens round t...

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