But from delay the summer calms were past.

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[Variant 33:]

1802
We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep,
1798

We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep,

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[Variant 34:]

Oh! dreadful price of being to resign
All that is dear in being! better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very nourishment!) their brother's blood.







Only in the editions of 1798 and 1800.

Oh! dreadful price of being to resign
All that is dear in being! better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very nourishment!) their brother's blood.

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