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Lissus (Albania) (search for this): book 5, card 593
shipwreck! ' Night dispersed, and soon The sun beamed on them, and the wearied deep, The winds permitting, lulled its waves to rest. And when Antonius saw a breeze arise Fresh from a cloudless heaven, to break the sea, He loosed his ships which, by the pilots' hands And by the wind in equal order held, Swept as a marching host across the main. But night unfriendly from the seamen snatched All governance of sail, parting the ships In divers paths asunder. Like as cranes Deserting frozen Strymon for the streams Of Nile, when winter falls, in casual lines Of wedge-like figures Compare Paradise Lost, VII.. 125. first ascend the sky; But when in loftier heaven the southern breeze Strikes on their pinions tense, in loose array Dispersed at large, in flight irregular, They wing their journey onwards. Stronger winds With day returning blew the navy on, Past Lissus' shelter which they vainly sought, Till bare to northern blasts, Nymphaeum's port, But safe in southern, gave the fleet repose.
Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 5, card 593
daring hast thou gone, Unpitying Caesar? Were these humble lives Left here unguarded while thy limbs were given, Unsought for, to be scattered by the storm? 'When on thy breath so many nations hang For life and safety, and so great a world Calls thee its master, to have courted death Proves want of heart. Were none of all thy friends Deserving held to join their fate with thine? 'When thou wast tossed upon the stormy main We lay in slumber! Shame upon such sleep! 'And why thyself didst seek Italia's shores? '"Twere cruel (such thy thought) to speak the word That bade another dare the furious sea. All men must bear what chance or fate may bring, The sudden peril and the stroke of death; But shall the ruler of the world attempt 'The raging ocean? With incessant prayers Why weary heaven? is it indeed enough To crown the war, that Fortune and the deep 'Have cast thee on our shores? And wouldst thou use 'The grace of favouring deities, to gain Not lordship, not the empire of the world,
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