Hast thou, along thy foot-worn, azure wall,

Ever seen seas so hard for hope to span,

As this red surge, that in a spring so small,

A bird could beak it up, its flood began?

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THE TIGER

How glares the tiger in his desert lair—

Now half the world! Beholding with dismay

That Human Freedom is the tiger's prey,