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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 28, Pages 62-63




THE DIVER.—BY FELICIA HEMANS.

—————Wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.


Thou hast been where the rocks of coral grow,
    Thou hast fought with eddying waves;
Thy cheek is pale and thy heart beats low,
    Thou searcher of Ocean's caves!