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FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
190
On Africa's inhuman shore,
To the wrecked seaman rough and drear,
Thy sacred name I o'er and o'er
Repeated, which the waves to hear
Back to the Spanish regions bore.
On the far Pole's dark furious sea,
By the Batavian's energy
Bridled, again thy name was heard:
Heard it the Rhone, the foamy Rhine,
The Pyrenæan heights the word
Repeated with the Apennine,
And in Vesuvius' burning cave
Then first the sound the echos gave.
EPISTLE TO THE DUQUE DE FRIAS,
ON THE DEATH OF THE DUQUESA.
From the dark gloomy borders of the Seine,
Where with black clouds around the heaven extends,
The earth o'erwhelm'd with snow, the heart with pain,
Thee thy unhappy friend his greeting sends;
