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Had vanished, swallowed up with all that there

Had for the common safety striven in vain, Or thither thronged for refuge. With quick glance

Daughter and Sire through optic-glass discern,

Clinging about the remnant of this Ship, Creatures -how precious in the Maiden's

sight! For whom, belike, the old Man grieves still more

Than for their fellow-sufferers engulfed 40 Where every parting agony is hushed,

And hope and fear mix not in further strife. "But courage, Father! let us out to seaA few may yet be saved." The Daughter's words,

Her earnest tone, and look beaming with faith,

Dispel the Father's doubts: nor do they lack

The noble-minded Mother's helping hand To launch the boat; and with her blessing cheered,

And inwardly sustained by silent prayer, Together they put forth, Father and Child! Each grasps an oar, and struggling on they go

Rivals in effort; and, alike intent

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Here to elude and there surmount, they watch

The billows lengthening, mutually crossed

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Hope to the hopeless, to the dying, life-
One is a Woman, a poor earthly sister,
Or, be the Visitant other than she seems,
A guardian Spirit sent from pitying Heaven,
In woman's shape. But why prolong the
tale,

Casting weak words amid a host of thoughts
Armed to repel them? Every hazard faced
And difficulty mastered, with resolve

That no one breathing should be left to

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Adding immortal labours of his ownWhether he traced historic truth, with For the State's guidance, or the Church's weal,

Or Fancy, disciplined by studious art, Informed his pen, or wisdom of the heart. Or judgments sanctioned in the Patrist mind

By reverence for the rights of all mankin Wide were his aims, yet in no human breast Could private feelings meet for holier rest His joys, his griefs, have vanished like cloud

From Skiddaw's top; but he to heaven va vowed

Through his industrious life, and Christian

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FORTH from a jutting ridge, around whose base

Winds our deep Vale, two heath-clad Rocks ascend

In fellowship, the loftiest of the pair
Rising to no ambitious height; yet both,
O'er lake and stream, mountain and flowery
mead,

Unfolding prospects fair as human eyes
Ever beheld. Up-led with mutual help,
To one or other brow of those twin Peaks
Were two adventurous Sisters wont to
climb,

And took no note of the hour while thence they gazed,

The blooming heath their couch, gazed, side by side,

In speechless admiration. I, a witness And frequent sharer of their calm delight With thankful heart, to either Eminence Gave the baptismal name each Sister bore. Now are they parted, far as Death's cold hand

Hath power to part the Spirits of those who love

As they did love. Ye kindred Pinnacles
That, while the generations of mankind
Follow each other to their hiding-place
In time's abyss, are privileged to endure
Beautiful in yourselves, and richly graced
With like command of beauty - grant your
aid

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