As danger grows."

The stanza beginning "To thee belongs," etc., is simply a lyrical paraphrase of the passage in Britannia commencing "Oh first of human blessings," and of a couplet in the last part of Liberty:—

"The winds and seas are [Britain's wide domain;]

And not a sail but by permission spreads."

The couplet

"All thine shall be the subject main,

And every shore it circles thine"

is simply the echo of a couplet in the fifth part of Liberty

"All ocean is her own, and every land

To whom her ruling thunder ocean bears."