Good or bad a thousand-fold!

How widely its agencies vary—

To save—to ruin—to curse—to bless—

As even its minted coins express,

Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess,

And now of a Bloody Mary.

[THE LEE SHORE.]

Sleet! and Hail! and Thunder!

And ye Winds that rave,

Till the sands thereunder