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EAST AND WEST, 
 
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 A POEM, 
 
 BT ABRAHAM ROBINSON. 
 
 Still must I oil ; for I am as a weed, 
 
 Flung from the rock, ou Ocean's foam, to sail 
 
 Wiiere'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. 
 
 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III — 2 
 
 BUENOS AYRES 
 
 I'llINTI^D AT THE MKRCANTILB GAZETTE OFFICE 
 
 1848. 
 
LOAN STACK 
 
963 
 
 Not in the futile hope applause to gain 
 
 From Critic stern for this his slender son^r, 
 Nor seeking honors with ambition vain, 
 
 Which to the Poet's sacred name belong ; 
 Does he th' unskilful framer of this lay, 
 Its falt'ring numbers to the world display. 
 
 He aims alone to oiler to the view, 
 
 Tho' weak his ve-se, and all luiapt his hand. 
 Some peneill'd rays from Nature's mirror true, 
 
 Which meet th' enraptured gaze, in ev'ry land, 
 Of all who con, 'neath varying sky and clime, 
 Those words of light — Creation's page sublime. 
 
 Kaenos Ayres, March, IS'JS. 
 
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EAST AND WEST. 
 
 — -^*V*»^ .f^ V^ A,*s^<»-^ 
 
 Canto tbe First 
 
 1. 
 
 [Jrg'd by the love of novelty and change, 
 And anxious distant I'egions to explore, 
 
 To Eastern climes and realms intent to range, 
 An humble 'vvand'rer' left the British shore ; 
 
 The while deep sorrow fill'd his youthful mind 
 
 For those dear friends whom he had left behind. 
 
 If. 
 
 Land I 'tis a glad and soul-exciting cry, 
 
 Which falls with sweetest cadence on the ear, 
 
 When the loud voice of seaman perch'd on high, 
 Thus indicates the wish'd-for haven near ; 
 
 What varied feelings in our minds arise, 
 
 Of scenes and objects new to meet the eyes . 
 
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 III. 
 
 Slowly from out the deep those peaks emerge, 
 Which first to view St. Helen's isle disclose, 
 
 And as the onward vessel breasts the surge, 
 
 More clear defined each crest and valley grows ; 
 
 Until we gaze upon that rock-bound shore. 
 
 Which has for Ages braved the Ocean's roar. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Here ceased the beatings of that mighty heart, 
 
 Whose throbbing pulse so late convuls'd the world ; 
 
 Here bovi^'d submissive to Death's ruthless dart, 
 The modern Caesar from his Empire hurl'd ; 
 
 Here, past th' effulgence of its transient gleam, 
 
 Closed the vain promptings of Ambition's dream. 
 
 V, 
 
 And who has e'er beheld the humble grave, 
 Who stood beside the lone, secluded spot 
 
 Where the twin sympathizing willows wave 
 O'er one whose deeds will never be forgot ; 
 
 And has not paid at least a mental tear, 
 
 And own'd the vanity of all things here? 
 
 VI. 
 
 Yet strange to tell the Hero's senseless clay, 
 
 When placed within the dark and narrow tomb. 
 
 Had still another glorious part to play. 
 
 Before it should receive the final doom ; 
 
 Two mighty nations viev/'d it as the gage, 
 
 That future wars should ne'er betwixt them rafje. 
 
VII. 
 
 Thus may it be — may their fierce contests cease, 
 Their bands no longer meet in angry war, 
 
 And may this prove the "calumet" of peace, 
 The harbinger of contests diff'rent far; 
 
 Henceforth may each her views and povv'r direct, 
 
 The gen'ral spread of Knowledge to effect. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Striking the fetters from the tortur'd slave ; 
 
 Bearing the arts of Industry to lands, 
 Whose earnest cry heard o'er the distant wave, 
 
 Invites assistance at their brethren's hands ; 
 And by the gen'ral spread of Reason's ray, 
 Chasing themists of Ignorance away. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Tow'rds the cold South our onward course we steer, 
 
 Borne on the pinions of the brisk Trade-wind, 
 And soon da Gama's well-known Cape we near, 
 
 And shortly leave its dang'rous seas behind ; 
 That Cape in other days styled "Cape of Storms", 
 Though now "Good Hope" its milder title forms. 
 
 X. 
 
 O Africa ! for Ages 'neath the "ban" 
 
 Of Wrong and Rapine, thy pestif'rous clime 
 
 Bas prov'd the field where fierce, rapacious Man 
 
 Has sow'd the seed, and reap'd the fruit of crime ; 
 
 And whence, his sordid baseness to unfold ^ 
 
 His fellow-Man he pluck'd to sell for gold- 
 
XI. 
 Shame on our dastard race ! that crimson stain 
 
 Not years of penitence will wash away, 
 And leave th' ensanguin'd "pale-face" white again ; 
 
 The European, boasting that his clay, 
 Possessing virtues which the Negroes lack, 
 Confers some right to lash each dusky back. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Yet let me joy to think that one at least 
 
 Amongst the Nations, will no more agree 
 
 To level reas'ning Man with savage beast, 
 
 And has declared the injured Negro FREE ; 
 
 Proclaim'd that bondsmen shall no more he seen, 
 
 In all the countries ruled by Britain's Queen. 
 
 XIII. 
 Thanks be to God for this example giv'n 
 
 Before the op'ningeyes of all the world ; 
 Henceforth all other nations will be driv'n 
 
 To follow Freedom's banner thus unfurl'd ; 
 And though a little space the slave may bleed, 
 Ere long the bright example must succeed. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Obedient to a fresh and fair Monsoon, 
 
 Our vessel's prow the curling seas dividcS;; 
 
 And ere Sol's course has thrice proclaim'd it Noon, 
 Thro' Mozambique's canal she swiftly glides ; 
 
 Yet a brief space— and to cur anxious gaze, 
 
 Bombay its crowded, bustling mart displays. 
 
XV. 
 
 [Jul hark ! a gun fired from that schooner near, 
 Does with a stunning sense our breasts imbue, 
 
 As when some sad catastrophe we fear ; 
 
 Alas ! our worst conjectures prove too true 
 
 Before the fatal impulse of that ball, 
 
 One of the best of men was doom M to fall. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Peace to his mem'ry ! not a nianh' breast. 
 
 Which vv'hil St he breath'd his gen'rous feelings knew. 
 But has since then unto itself confess'd 
 
 In silent grief, that never heart more true 
 Sent through the tortuous veins its crimson tide, 
 Than his v^rhoon that day untimely died. 
 
 XV 11. 
 
 Not many arc the spots on this our Earth, 
 Where it is given at one wlev/ to scan, 
 So many who by common i-i^ht of birlh, 
 
 Claim kindred as the family of Man, 
 Yet differ each from each, as at this port, 
 By Commerce made a place of great resort. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 The shrevv'd tho' staid Parsee ; the Gentoo mi'd ; 
 
 The pale-faced Arab ; and of course the Jew ; 
 The son of China ; Nubia's swarthy child ; 
 
 Malay ; Armenian ; and a motley crew 
 prom Europe's distant climes; with many more, 
 Whom love of jjain impels to seek this shore. 
 
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 XIX. 
 
 Amidst this varied throng, wliose common aim 
 
 Is that of barter, it were hard to trace 
 Those wiiose good deeds demand a prior claim 
 
 To mention o'er the peaceful Parseerace ; 
 Since to these shores a persecution dire, 
 Compell'd these ancient worshippers of fire, 
 
 XX. 
 
 Endow'd by Nature with a lib'ral mind, 
 
 Which prompts them foremost in each gen'rous deed. 
 For active enterprise we shall uot find 
 
 In any country who may them exceed ; 
 Whilst 'neath our rule by peaceful Commerce thrive 
 These valued members of the social hive. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 The merits of the Parsee race with pride 
 
 I do in this my slender verse record ; 
 But would not have the meek Gentoos decried, 
 
 Nor hesitate to them my praise t' accord ; 
 For they a rule of conduct oft observe, 
 Which Christians preach, yet from its precepts swerve. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Full oft when drought or locusts' busy wing, 
 
 Has pinch'd through India's plains the crop of rice, 
 
 And singly or together work'd to bring 
 This food so needful to a famine price; 
 
 The rich Gentoo fails not to ope his store, 
 
 And feed the thousands who surround his door 
 
XXIII. 
 
 Go and do likewi.i.e thou who boast'st thyseli' 
 The foU'wer of a Saviour meek and mild, 
 
 Grudge not some portion of thy hoarded pelf, 
 To save from want and ruin Mis'ry's child ; 
 
 Shall the Gentoo tlie sole right reader be 
 
 Of "Do as thou wouldst men should do to thee.» 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Its wooded peaks from Bombay's island seen, 
 And within hearing of the sparkling waves, 
 
 Which fall with gentle murmur near its Green, 
 Stands ElepJianta with its far-famed caves ; 
 
 The wondrous fruits of hard and patient toil, 
 
 When men of diff'rent mould possess'd this soil. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 Struck by the giant nature of the task, 
 
 Whilst round these caves our curious gaze we bend, 
 We laud the sculptors, but proceed to ask 
 
 '*To what good purpose did their labours tend ?» 
 And quit the temples with a heavy sigh, 
 That Man should thus his talents misapply. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 The East! what magic charms invest that word, 
 Visions of fairy climes and regions bright ; 
 
 Alas ! those fabled lands too oft afford 
 
 Objects of woe to pain the aching sight, 
 
 Pictures from which we turn with deep disgust, 
 
 Stain'd witli the odious tints oi' blood and lust. 
 
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 XXVII. 
 And yet they are by Nature beauteous lands, 
 
 By Nature's aid in gorgeous garments clad, 
 When first they left The Great Creator's hands. 
 
 They nothing lack'd to make the spirit glad ; 
 The moral contrast which they give to view, 
 To fierce and ruthless Man alone is due. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 India ! Uiy sky is bright, thy fertile soil 
 
 Well fitted ev'ry object to produce, 
 (And that at very little cost of toil) 
 
 Which may to use or luxur}-- conduce ; 
 Within thy spicy groves, upon thy plains, 
 And 'neath thy soil, what rich profusion reigns. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 With finny tribes thy rapid rivers teem. 
 
 What realms with thine for luscious fruits can vie i" 
 The hues prismatic of Sol's ardent beam, 
 
 Tint ev'ry object there with magic dye; 
 And yet not all — to mar the beauteous plan. 
 Appears that master-piece of Nature — Man. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Here Superstition rears her hideous head, 
 
 Whilst humble slaves before her tbot-stool bend, 
 
 And by her dev'lish rites in bondage led, 
 
 Their abject limbs to cruel tortures lend ; 
 
 Here infant widows as a boon aspire, 
 
 To end their op'ning lives upon tiic '^pyre. '> 
 
XXXI. 
 
 Here deep designing men for Ages past, 
 Unto the list'ning multitude liave taught 
 
 The base, ignoble theory of "caste", 
 
 And thus enchain'd the faculty of Thought ; 
 
 That noble gift, whose usage laid aside, 
 
 Where were the bounds which Man from brute divide. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 Here Pest and Famine stalk from time to time 
 
 With conq'ring feet throughout the prostrate land, 
 Here foul Infanticide, that monstrous crime, 
 
 Arms 'gainst her offspring's life the mother's hand, 
 Here, notwithstanding Britain's righteous aims, 
 Domestic slav'ry still its victims claims. 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 And can we not perchance afford to view 
 
 Some gladd'ning facts these horrors to redeem, 
 
 Must all be tinted of a "sombre" hue. 
 
 No cheering lights upon the picture gleam ? 
 
 Yes, thanks to God, though late Great Britain brings 
 
 Some povv''r to bear to change this state of things. 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 Bentinck ! be thy philanthropy revei'ed 
 
 By all the Earth unto the end of Time, 
 
 Thy honor'd name to all the good endear'd, 
 
 Since thou didst lay the axe to one foul crime. 
 
 Branding the mad "suttee" with Britain's "ban", 
 
 And shielding thus the tender slave of Man. 
 
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 XXXV. 
 
 Amongst those statesmen who have held command 
 With deathless fame o'er India's torrid soil, 
 
 (And num'rous those who for their native land 
 Have fiU'd with great eclat that post of toil) 
 
 'Gainst arduous obstacles compell'd to strive, 
 
 Let not his country fail to think on Clivc. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 Did not his plans the first foundation lay 
 Of that extended pow'r which we enjoy 
 
 In India's realms ? — and was it to repay 
 
 His gen'rous toils they treated to destroy 
 
 That dearest part of Man his spotless fame ? 
 
 Thank God they could not soil dive's glorious name. 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 As yet, alas ! through fields of crimson blood 
 Our onward path in India has been trod, 
 
 Thus far in lieu of ministers of good, 
 
 As conq'rors we have grasp'd th' avenging rod. 
 
 War following war we scarce could time afl'ord 
 
 To heal those w^ounds indicted by the sword. 
 
 XXXYIIL 
 
 From vict'ry on to vict'ry marching still, 
 
 Before our pow'r the sternest chiefs have how'd ; 
 
 Must we not recognise some Sov'reign Will, 
 
 Which has to us such mark"d success aliow'd, 
 
 And own that we those mighty realms direct, 
 
 Some wise improvements in their state t' effect.. 
 
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 XXXIX. 
 
 Ami since our country distant half the globe,. 
 
 Does o'er the fate of India arbitrate, 
 1 lor kings depose, her rankling evils probe, 
 
 And for her countless millions legislate ; 
 Siiall we debase the lion's lordly paw, 
 Solely to furnish Mammon's hungry javv ? 
 
 XL. 
 
 O ! let us not the narrow ground maintain, 
 
 That Commerce has unlock'd this golden mart, 
 
 Merely to satisfy the thirst of gain, 
 
 And to our well-lov'd country wealth impart ; 
 
 Here, as elsewhere, she only forms the "van*', 
 
 To lead to action vain and selfish Man. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 To lead — that so Improvement's fleet may take 
 Their sev'ral stations 'gainst the common foe 
 
 Might Ignorance, his strongest bulwarks shake. 
 And from the base his monstrous rule o'erthrow 
 
 If not our wondrous pow'r so firm to.day^ 
 
 Will like a gaudy vision pas^ away. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 Away Despair ! to that of stubborn steel 
 
 Will soon succeed the sway of righteous laws, 
 
 Monopoly o'erthrowu we now can feel 
 
 A common int'rcst in wide India's cause, 
 
 And thougii we've shed Pai.dora's box of ills 
 
 Throughout her bounds, Hope still her station fills,. 
 
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 XLIil. "* 
 
 And who that harbours in his gen'rous breast 
 
 A wish to benefit our common kind, 
 Is not with earnest, heartfelt wish impress'd, 
 
 That Britain's measures may be so combined, 
 That taught to love our rule — not fear our rod — 
 All India's tribes may worship India's God . 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 AAvay Despair ! to India's realms we now 
 
 Through routes long laid aside our pathway trace, 
 
 Thanks to our Watt the steamer's rushing prow 
 Annihilates for us both Time and Space, 
 
 And offers to our view to prompt our zeal, 
 
 A mighty pow'r for working India's weal. 
 
 XLV. 
 
 Away Despair ! a change begins to work 
 Throughout society o'er India's land, 
 
 Beneath its surface blest improvements lurk, 
 
 Which stubborn prejudice will scarce withstand ; 
 
 Amongst the wealthy natives some at last 
 
 Have torn and from them thrown the veil of "caste.** 
 
 XLYI. 
 
 Thus has a breach been fornrd in that great wall, 
 Which did from us our fellow.men divide, 
 
 And one by one may all its ramparts fall, 
 Its odious tow'rs of strength be cast aside, 
 
 Its citadels by constant efforts storm'd, 
 
 And o'er their dust Improvement's pathway form'd. 
 
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 XLVII. 
 
 Low are thy hot and sickly coasts, Bengal, 
 So much so that the voy'ger's eye descries 
 
 The spreading top of many a palm-tree tall. 
 
 Ere the white sandy beach salutes his eyes ; 
 
 And half reveal'd their stems gigantic stand, j, 
 
 Before he well discerns the neighb'ring strand. 
 
 XLVIII. 
 
 Confused and intricate those channels are, 
 
 Which form the entrance to the Hooghly's stream, 
 
 Whose current flows o'er many a dang'rous bar, 
 Which to avoid a hopeless task might seem, 
 
 Were't not that skilful pilots means provide, 
 
 Through Safety's path th' arriving ship to guide. 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 And still the river's mud-form'd banks are low, 
 And still its panorama dull and drear, 
 
 And weary of its tedious length you grow 
 
 Before Calcutta's masts and spires appear ; 
 
 Yet here I would retract, and not impeach 
 
 The beauty of thy prospect— Garden Reach. 
 
 L. 
 
 Around our boat the shades of ev'ning fell, 
 
 When first on harden Reach I fix'd my gaze, 
 
 And few I ween the landscapes which excel 
 
 The striking beauties which that scene displays ; 
 
 Paint to your mind a Tropic ev'ning warm, 
 
 A noble river sleeping in a calm : — 
 
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 LI. 
 
 T' adorn its verdant banks, on either hand 
 
 Shaded by trees and carpeted with flow'rs, 
 
 Design some villas picturesque which stand 
 
 Beyond green lawns and back'd by shady bow"rs ; 
 
 Some birds of brilliant plumage now select, 
 
 And let the glassy stream their hues reflect. 
 
 LII. 
 
 Vary the hour — and let a lustrous Moon 
 
 Upon your picture shed her mellow light, 
 
 (Though hot and fierce the scorching glare of Noon, 
 How cool and chaste these liquid beams of Night) 
 
 Now make your choice — Sol takes your heart by storm, 
 
 Wjiilst Luna does the suppliant's part perform. 
 
 LIIL 
 
 Two objects eloquent of Britain's rule 
 
 Here stand to beautify the Hooghly's banks, 
 
 The »Gfounds Botanic" .and the "Hindu School," 
 For both of which the learned owe their thanks : 
 
 And ere these things have faded from your gaze, 
 
 The Capital its roofs and spires displays. 
 
 LIV. 
 
 And since it seems to me that in the "van" 
 
 Of things terrestrial which our thougiits deserve, • 
 
 The »polyglot» and »rolio" book of Man 
 
 E'er claims the foremost station to preserve ; 
 
 J would a few lame stanzas here devote, 
 
 Some words fiom out its page »Bengal» to quote. 
 
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 LV. 
 
 .:\" race of men more patient, humble, meek, 
 
 Than are the natives of Bengal's wide plains, 
 
 In vain we .should through Earth's wide conanes seek, 
 'Midst all the millions whom her soil sustains ; 
 
 Thougli — with no wish their merits to decry — 
 
 Their mental gifts are not of order high. 
 
 LVI. 
 
 But stating this I would be understood 
 
 To argue in a geu'ral sense alone, 
 And not t' assert the rule holds always good. 
 
 Or that exceptions bright may not be shown ; 
 Such falsely form'd opinions to destroy, 
 I only need to mention Pv.ammohuii Roy. 
 
 LVII. 
 
 And then the level district only fills 
 
 A given portion of the country's space, 
 And well 'tis known the natives of the hills 
 
 Have proved themselves a widely ditl''rent race ; 
 The enterprising courage which we find 
 'Midst them declares them of superior mind. 
 
 LVUf. 
 
 And can we wonder that the former race 
 
 Of Degradation's cup have freely drunk, 
 
 When from remotest Ages we can trace 
 
 That superstitious seep in which they're sunk; 
 
 Whilst conq'ring feet so oft these realms have trod,- 
 
 And used at will Oppression's iron rod. 
 
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 LIX. 
 
 That superstitious sleep ! — and dense I fear 
 Is the impervious veil which hoods the eyes 
 
 And screens the Truth from countless millions here ; 
 For India offers scenes which cause surprise 
 
 How Craft and Cunning should so far debase 
 
 These fellow- members of the human race. 
 
 LX. 
 
 List to that shout ! — that strange, unearthly sound, 
 Whose maniac fierceness pierced your inmost ear 
 
 Whence came that fearful cry ? — turn quickly round, 
 That form, scarce human, is a poor »Fakeer" ; 
 
 Reason no more illumes his feeble brain, 
 
 O'erw^hich th' usurper Instinct now does reign. 
 
 LXI 
 
 His stiff and wither'd arm o'ertops his head, 
 And from that posture never can descend, 
 
 For many years that limb has now been dead, 
 No efforts could its bones and nerves unbend ; 
 
 White ashes o'er his prostrate form are thrown, 
 
 And thus for by-gone sins he trusts t' atone. 
 
 LXII. 
 What form is that o'er which we almost strode, 
 
 And which persists in endless turns t© roll 
 Along the surface of the dusty road ? 
 
 O God ! it is a man with deathless soul ; — 
 How shall we this strange fantasy explain? 
 He trusts by this immortal bliss to gain. 
 
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 LXIIf. 
 
 For many years on each succeeding day 
 
 He has been known along this road to glide, 
 
 Thus prone extended on Earth's sister clay. 
 
 To reach and lave himself in Hooghly's tide ; 
 
 He would not (can he now ?) or stand or sit, 
 
 Or for the world that grov'lling posture quit. 
 
 LXIV. 
 What spectacle is yon which seems t' engage 
 
 The wrapt attention of each human eye, 
 What mean this countless throng— this wooden stage — 
 
 And what that loudly-raised applauding cry ? 
 Approach not nearer — hence you may behold 
 A sight to make the quick'ning blood run cold. 
 
 LXV. 
 
 Encircled by that seeming human ring, 
 
 The priests attendant on these rites prepare 
 
 By ropes suspended from that pole to swing 
 A living human form in middle air, 
 
 And pointed hooks — nay doubt me not — 'tis true — 
 
 Will pierce his tortured body through and through. 
 
 LXVL 
 
 The City to portray does not comport 
 
 With my design, although I can declare 
 
 The English quarter handsome, and the Fort 
 
 For strength and grandeur not surpass'd elsewhere; 
 
 I merely have in view to name one spot, 
 
 The scene of sulFrings ne'er to be forgot. 
 
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 LXVII. 
 
 I make allusion to the famed ^Black Hole,*> 
 
 Whose cui'sed walls no more the Earth pollute, 
 
 But still the "genius loci" haunts the soul, 
 
 And breathes a lesson eloquent though mute 
 
 Of bodily and mental pangs endured 
 
 By those within that dungeon once immured. 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 The mem'ry of that dark and monstrous crime 
 A moral lesson fraught with good conveys 
 
 To us who govern at the present time 
 
 O'er India's wide spread realms ; it clearly says, 
 
 (And by its precepts may we e'er abide) 
 
 *Let Mercy's sacred rules your counsels guide." 
 
 LXIX. 
 
 I might discourse of Dacca where I've stray'd 
 
 Through lone deserted streets with grass o'ergrowr 
 
 By which a striking moral is convey'd, 
 
 For Paisley's busy weavers have o'erthrown 
 
 This ancient city by the aid of Steam ; 
 
 A fate of which its iVawabs ne'er could dream. 
 
 LXX. 
 
 Its mosques and caravansaries of old 
 
 In sad and rank confusion prostrate lie, 
 
 And seem to whisper as "a tale that's told," 
 Our ancient grandeur could no longer vie 
 
 With that invincible tho' peaceful pow'r, 
 
 Which nearly rules Earth's surface at tliis hour,. 
 
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 LXXI. 
 
 Or say on Brahmapoutra's tide I've sailed, 
 
 Whose stream in magnitude to few will yield, 
 
 And tell that from the Ganges I have hail'd 
 That memorable spot called Plassy's field, 
 
 Where vict'ry gain'd by Clive's advent'rous bands 
 
 Placed India's fertile regions in our hands. 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 Or speak a few brief words of Woorsh'dabad, 
 
 (Another seat of pow'r in days of old), 
 Where sons of those who once the "musnud"* had 
 
 Are still allow'd a so-called sway to hold, 
 Altho' since v.-e disburse their store of pelf. 
 We've virtually placed them on the shelf. 
 
 LXXIII. 
 
 But then the entertainment of the thought, 
 
 That all those scenes of Eastern pomp and pride, 
 Which once prevail'd there, have been brought to naught 
 
 V And like to wornouc garments cast aside, 
 Might fjrm the ground-v\-odc for a touch of spleen ; 
 So if the reader '.vills I'll si' '"i the scene. 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 A brisk Monsoon distends each flowing sail 
 
 Whilst o'er the briny deep we glide once more. 
 
 And soon with glad and thankful eyes we hail 
 
 The num'rous palms vvh.iGh line Malaya's shore. 
 
 Whose lofty stems as giant sentries stand 
 
 To guard from hostile foot that fairy land. 
 
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 LXXV. 
 
 'Tis Noon — what varied tints of light and shade 
 The dazzling sun upon the forests flings, 
 
 Those woods in all their verdant pomp array'd, 
 For here the annual course of seasons brings 
 
 No fall of leaf as 'neath our colder sky, 
 
 Where Winter's icy touch leaves branches dry. 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 He only who has felt Sol's ardent rays 
 
 Where 'neath the Tropics they more fiercely gleam, 
 Can fitly estimate the scorching blaze, 
 
 Which in those climes attends his noontide beam, 
 Or well believe the oft-times fatal pow'r, 
 Which he exhibits at that trying hour. 
 
 LXXVII. 
 
 Beneath the tall bamboo or giant palm 
 
 The panting cattle gladly seek the shade, 
 
 A close, oppressive, almost stifling calm 
 
 Seems with its pow'r all Nature to pervade ; 
 
 Within the jungle, o'er the parch'd up plains. 
 
 Both far and near a deathlike stillness reigns. 
 
 LXXVJIL 
 
 But hark ! a still small sound pervades the air, 
 Far distant lightnings flash upon the sight, 
 
 Anon they dazzle with their vivid glare, 
 
 Whilst crashing thunder-peals the mind affright ; 
 
 In drenching torrents fall the welcome rains 
 
 In drops refreshing to the thirsty })lains. 
 
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 LXXIX. 
 
 As do llie fructifying streams of Nile 
 
 Each year desert their bed to flood the land, 
 
 Thus causing Egy[it's ancient soil to smile 
 With golden-color'd crops on ev'ry hand, 
 
 So India's rivers at th' accustom'd time 
 
 Clothe her pareh'd fields with renovating slime. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 ThrougJiout the regions of the glowing East, 
 Where Nature seems in fair array to smile, 
 
 No spot for beauty, to my thoughts at least, 
 Surpasses thee Pinang's enchanting isle ; 
 
 Throughout the East ! that were a narrow field, 
 
 The wide-spread World could scarce a rival yield. 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 Thy hills and dells form one continued grove, 
 W^here Flora does in all her glory reign, 
 
 Whilst the rich mangostan, the nutmeg, clove, 
 Pomona's claims to sov'reignty maintain : 
 
 'Twere hard to choose when two such beauties vie 
 
 To charm the palate or delight the eye. 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 The lofty sails enfold the taper mast 
 
 And idly flap to chide the treach'rous wind. 
 
 Until Malacca's beauteous straits are past, 
 And hot Sumatra's shores are left behind ; 
 
 Whilst 'ncath the vessel's prow when falls the Night, 
 
 Each ripple breaks in bright phosphoric light. 
 
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 LXXXIII. 
 
 What varied thoughts within the miad tivise, 
 
 When, winding'mid fair isles her tortuous Vv^ay, 
 
 The vesssl's course presents before your eyes 
 The scene which Singapoura's roads display ! 
 
 What flatt'ring contrast does this late-born child 
 
 Of Commerce ofler to the neighb'ring wild ! 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 Raffles ! thy lib'ral and enlighten'd mind 
 
 Suggested first this neutral trading-ground, •» 
 
 That men might here a seat of barter find 
 
 By barb'rous fiscal laws no longer bound ; 
 
 And to the prudent Avisdom of thy choice 
 
 Its crowded port speaks with triumphant voice. 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 Sway'd on their lengthy voy'ge by dext'rous helms, 
 And '.scaped the dangers of the foaming seas, 
 
 The various barques from Europe's distant realms 
 Here give their motley colors to the breeze, 
 
 Whilst safely anchor'd near Arabia's "dow,'> 
 
 Float China's junk and th' island trading '^prahu.w 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 He who that sight observes can never cease 
 These grand results of Industry t' admire ; 
 
 These are thy glorious triumphs heav'nly Peace, 
 No share in these had War's destructive fire; 
 
 Ah ! would that views like these should rule the World, 
 
 And War's i-nm giant from his throne were hurl'd. 
 
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 LXXXVII. 
 
 Adieu ! Malaya's brigln and sunny land, 
 
 Since last thsy touch'd l!iy shores my wanti'ring feet 
 Have trod the soil of many a distant strand, 
 
 But 'midst them all not one has seeni'd to greet 
 My first approach with such bewitching smiles, 
 As thy e'er verdant coasts and neighb'ring isles. 
 
 Lxxxviir. 
 
 He who is voy'ging on the China Seas 
 
 When the revolving year is on the wane. 
 
 Possesses not a bosom well at ease, 
 
 For at such times Ty-foongs .ire wont to reigix 
 
 Throughout their bounds; /know their awful force, 
 
 Rut will not of such matters here discourse. 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 For since a voy'ge at sea is dry enough, 
 
 Despite the vvat'ry waste o'er which you sail. 
 
 And we met not with tempests very rough, 
 With storms I will not interlard my tale. 
 
 But beg my reader will so courteous be 
 
 As to suppose we pass'd some days at sea. 
 
 XC. . 
 
 The num'rous vessels which we now descry, 
 
 Whose crev.'s against the Ocean's inmates arm 
 
 Th' ensnaring not, proclaim some region nigh, 
 
 Whose soil with myriads of our kind must swarm ^ 
 
 Conclusion just, we're now about t' arrive 
 
 Upon the skirts of China's busy hive. 
 
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 XCl. 
 
 Here did a politic and wily race 
 
 Lon^r stand aloof from the remaining Earth, 
 A nation which with reason seems to trace 
 
 To such remote antiquity its birth, 
 That its more modern sages breath'd and thought, 
 Ere Rome convuls'd the world or Athens taught. 
 
 XCII. 
 This tribe unique a certain height attain'd 
 
 Upon the social scale, there made a pause, 
 And then, as now, the selfsame forms retain'd, 
 
 The like prevailhig habits, customs, laws. 
 When Ilion's wall to overthrow was doom'd, 
 Or lava's crust Pompeii's streets entomb'd. 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 What novel scenes and objects meet the eye 
 
 On ev'ry hand in thy strait lanes, Quang-tong I 
 
 The stranger's mind is tempted to deny 
 That men or city to our Earth belong, 
 
 And shares a doubt that on his passage here 
 
 He has been wafted to some other sphere. 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 Through Europe's crowded cities if we range, 
 In each some novelties our eyes assail, 
 
 But tho' we note both scenes and customs stranire. 
 Some grand connecting links \/e ever hail ; 
 
 Whilst no such friendly sign our vision greets 
 
 Throughout Quang-tong'8 confined and crowded streets. 
 
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 XCV. 
 
 •Strange are its shops and houses — strange the men — 
 
 Strange their long pig-tails— strange their air and dress- 
 Strange the strait alleys in this human den — 
 
 Strange the dense throngs which through them ever press- 
 Strange is the language heard around you here, 
 Whose monosyllables offend the ear. 
 
 XCVI. 
 
 Strange are the cats and dogs exposed for sale 
 
 In wicker baskets open to the view, 
 On seeing them one feels inclined to rail 
 
 Against such ^'' entremets^'* to us quite new : 
 And yet the only comment thereupon 
 Admissible, is that '*de gusVhus non.'''' 
 
 XCVII. 
 
 With head completely shorn if we except 
 
 The lengthy "queueW which from its crown depends, 
 And with the greatest care in order itept 
 
 Behind his back in tortuous folds descends, 
 Broad, yellow face, oblique yet piercing eye, 
 China's shrewd son attracts the passer-by 
 
 XCVIII. 
 
 Of "sombre* color is his wide-slecved vest, 
 
 Long nails his hands and square-toed shoon his feet 
 
 Disfigure, whilst his nether limbs t' invest 
 His hosen loosely girt th' attention greet : 
 
 A silken scull-cap and a paper fan 
 
 Complete the portrait of his "outer" man. 
 
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 XClX. 
 
 Slight is the diff'rence which the garb displays^ 
 (At least it seems so to the stranger's eyes,) 
 
 Which shields fair Woman from th' unholy gaze, 
 And mars her figure with its quaint disguise j 
 
 Unless the dwarf.like slippers we except, 
 
 By which her tortured feet from view are kept. 
 
 C. 
 
 Alas ! vain-glorious Man for aye at war 
 
 With Nature's precepts, fails not to exert 
 
 His feeble pow'rs her choicest gifts to mar, 
 
 And o'er her bounds a fancied rule t' assert : 
 
 What senseless arts his pride and lust combine 
 
 To square to rule the human form divine. 
 
 CI. 
 
 In some rude lands too round is deem'd the scull, 
 Man straightway hastes its figure to remould ; 
 
 In some styled civilized the waist's too full, 
 Restraining bonds its volume soon enfold : 
 
 Here skin or teeth, there nose, complexion, eyes, 
 
 With busy care he hastens to revise, 
 
 CII. 
 
 O monstrous f ;ol ! and whilst thou thus canst find 
 Food for thy censure in the paltry clay. 
 
 To furbish up the chambers of the mind 
 
 Canst thou not likewise some famt thought display ? 
 
 Paint, if thou \vi!', the outer caseof 'delf,' 
 
 But pray remember too thine inner self 
 
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 Uill. 
 Coining events liieir fonvard siiadows fiint^-, 
 
 And in this age of progress and of change 
 China no more to worn-out rules can clino;, 
 
 But with their fjllow-rnen her sons must range ; 
 The change alas ! is bought at cost of blood, 
 (A fearful price) but yet 'tis fraught with good. 
 
 CIV. 
 
 Britain ! blest isle, to thee t'would seem is giv'n 
 The key of Destiny o'er other lands. 
 
 And that it is the high behest of Heav'n 
 
 That with the v/ars committed to thy hands 
 
 The arts of peace are wafieJ from thy shore, 
 
 Distinguish'd thus thy sway from all before. 
 
 CV. 
 
 Far be it frum ir.y mind one v/ord to pen, 
 
 Which tor a moment would suggest the thought 
 That might gives right of rule o'er other men, 
 
 And that their prior rights should stand for naught 
 Nor for an instant be 't my senseless aim 
 To sanction war when solely waged for fame. 
 
 cvi. 
 
 A higher train of thought pervades my breast, 
 
 When pond'ring o'er this theme which oilers food 
 
 For deep reflection ; that the strife at rest 
 May prove the herald of enduring good, 
 
 And that this tribe freed from Restriction's ban, 
 
 May enter now the common pale ot Man. 
 
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 CVII. 
 
 Mysteriou.s are the ways and will of Him 
 Who ruleth all things, and to us is giv'n 
 
 To see but darkly, as with vision dim, 
 
 Time's onward course ; — but those strong fetters riv'n 
 
 Which bound this nurn'rous throng to Custom's car, 
 
 Knowledge and Truth will enter from afar ; 
 
 CVIII. 
 And cause them first to scorn and then reject 
 
 Their senseless idols, soon to re-arrange 
 Their cruel laws, their habits ill correct, 
 
 And put a period to their customs strange ; 
 Dark ills which haunt the 'inner land' shall cease, 
 Supplanting them Religion, Virtue, Peace. 
 
 CIX. 
 
 BloAv, fav'ring breeze — from China's far famed shore 
 A.nd thronged industrious marts we must away. 
 
 Intent those fertile islands to explore 
 
 O'er which Spain's feeble sceptre still holds sw-ay ; 
 
 Spain widely ruling once, tho' now her soil 
 
 Echoes the furious shout of civil broil. 
 
 ex. 
 
 Nature has o'er these isles her blessings poured. 
 Their bounteous soil does endless wealth enfold. 
 
 At least as far as yet they've been explored, 
 
 For the plain truth, the' shameful, must be told. 
 
 Whilst Spain so long this mine of wealth has kept 
 
 Her satraps on their posts have soundly slept. 
 
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 CXI. 
 
 And were it not that sAvarrns continual throng 
 
 From busy China to Manila's mart, 
 To toil and till its teeming fields — ere long 
 
 Commerce and Culture would alike depart ; 
 For kw the sons of Spain who would exert 
 Their pow'rs of mind such evils to avert. 
 
 CXII. 
 
 And whilst to till these rich and fertile lands, 
 Which well indeed the care bestow 'd repay, 
 
 The task's committed to the stranger's hands, 
 Across the seas their products to convey 
 
 Appears the foreign barq.ue, for feeble Spain 
 
 Does trifling commerce with these isles maintain. 
 
 CXIII. 
 
 Here dark Intolerance erects her head, 
 
 O'er-ruling opposition by the fear 
 Of that infernal tyrant long thought dead, 
 
 Though in good truth he only slumbers here, 
 Hio-ht "Holy Office, >> aiming to control 
 That noblest part of Man his deathless soul. 
 
 CXIV. 
 
 What mad presumption ! — that a fellow-worm 
 
 Should arm himself with this most monstrous pow'r, 
 
 Claiming some right and title to perform 
 
 The part of umpire o'er Devotion's hour, 
 
 And feigning one sole pathway to be trod 
 
 By those who are inclined to seek their God* 
 
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 cxv. 
 
 W'iih Spain in power o'er lliese isles tosliare 
 Appears a sable skinn'd and barb'rous race, 
 
 Whose dusky hue, flat features, curling hair, 
 Would seem their birth to Africa to trace ; 
 
 Midst forests dense intent themselves to hide 
 
 These island "aborigines" abide. 
 
 CXVI. 
 
 Vain, empty Man with stubborn pride persists 
 In claiming rank above the 'lower' kind, 
 
 But where this super-excellence exists, 
 
 Where this so great distinction we should find 
 
 In many corners of this earthly sphere, 
 
 'Twould gorely puzzle Man to render clear. 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 And yet there is a broad, distinctive shade 
 Betwixt the human and the bestial race, 
 
 Bouud'ries 'yond which these last can ne'er invade, 
 Limits defined which they can ne'er efface ; 
 
 And this most sacred Truth let none deny,— 
 
 'Tis that immortal soul which ne'er shall die. 
 
 CXVIII. 
 
 Yet ne'ertheless if we attention turn 
 
 To those dumb creatures which we class as "brute," 
 We may full many a moral lesson learn, 
 
 Con many a rule our wisdom to confute ; 
 What valued precepts may we not derive 
 From busy ants, or bees in social hive. 
 
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 CXIX. 
 
 How eloquent is their enacted speech 
 
 Of Order, Industry, the Common Weal, 
 With what persuasion does their foresight teach 
 
 Some int'rest in the Future's hours to feel ; 
 No licensed robbers there the weak to spoil. 
 No drones to fatten on their brethren's toil. 
 
 cxx. 
 
 Compell'd to quit in haste the ardent East 
 
 In search of that which oft-times we contemn 
 
 As thing of little worth, and value least 
 
 When most possess'd — Health's bright and priceless gem- 
 
 The 'wand'rer' here suspends a while his tale, 
 
 And o'er its ill-form'd sketches draws the veil. 
 
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 EAST AND WEST. 
 
 ■^<V'#N#« #S#.*^^S^^-^- 
 
 Canto the Secon,d, 
 
 I. 
 
 What startling changes o"er the world have been 
 Since from Magellan's bold, exploring prow 
 
 Thy tempest-riven visage first was seen 
 
 Cape Horn — Good Hope's twin Ocean-bulwark thou :— 
 
 Nations have ris'n and flouri.sh'd to deca)', 
 
 Whilst thou — as then— remain'st unscathed to-day. 
 
 II. 
 Tow'rds Heav'n's liigh arch their rugged snow-crown"d heads 
 
 The giant members of the Andes rear, 
 E'en as at first — whilst in their stony beds 
 
 Still course those mountain-torrents year by year; 
 But those who o'er these lands held sov'reign sway. 
 Caciques — ancient Incas — \/here are they ? 
 
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 III. 
 
 Ail, all are gone — and that fierce, stubborn pow'r 
 Which mark'd with tyranny her onward course 
 
 And boldly strutted here her petty hour, 
 
 Has left those regions too expell'd by force ; 
 
 And ah ' too long with civil broils have rung 
 
 The various States from Spain's dominion sprung. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Canning ! thy lofty genius did create 
 
 These infant members of the modern world, 
 
 Extending Britain's hand to each young State 
 
 Which had its tyrants from its confines hurl'd ; 
 
 Thou didst that spirit foster and maintain 
 
 Which crushed the odious yoke of tyrant Spain. 
 
 And though as yet amongst them has prevail'd 
 
 The murd'rous uproar caused by Faction's cry, 
 
 And their young Freedom has been oft assail'd 
 By men intent their selfish views to try, 
 
 Their rise is sure — their horoscope was cast 
 
 'Mid scenes Oi"" blood, yet Peace will reign at last. 
 
 VI. 
 
 O gentle Peace ! would that the hour were come 
 When Men intent thy maxims to obey, 
 
 tShall hate the squeaking fife and rattling drum 
 And scorn the glitt'ring pomp of War's array : 
 
 The glitt'ring pomp ! accursed, bitter mock 
 
 Of those sad scenes which wait on Battle's shock. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 Cast in the balance so-call'd Glory, Fame^ 
 All baubles which the warrior highly rates, 
 
 Pile high the trophies gain'd in War's fierce game,— * 
 
 You see they prove "deceitful on the weights •/'■ 
 
 Nay, lordly Man, intent the beam to sway 
 Enter the scale thyself thou thing of clay. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Vain is the task, — a chief commands to-day 
 Who leads the nations by a diff'rent rule, 
 
 A bitter enemy to strife and fray 
 
 Hight Knowledge — Captain of the modern school : 
 
 Henceforth the Earth will not so oft be dyed 
 
 Merely to please some whim of princely pride. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Nations believe not now that they were made 
 
 Blindly to follow each imperious nod 
 Which bids them yield themselves to War's sharp blade 
 
 And as tlieir rulers will to kiss the rod ; 
 From long lethargic sleep aroused at length 
 The People have been taught their proper strength. 
 
 X. 
 
 The People ! — since that short, expressive word 
 
 In many lexicons is quite unknown, 
 I would a little time and space afford 
 
 Until I have its proper reading shown 
 And duly noted here that meaning's force ; 
 The People — Power's only lawful source. 
 
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 XT. 
 
 Small heed, alas ! is to ihat, reading giv'n 
 
 In raany Slates which beai- Republic's name, 
 
 Where o'er the People's necks the strong have driv'n 
 The gilded car of Power with the same 
 
 Cold-blooded unconcern, as in those realms 
 
 Where by their "right divine" Kings guide the helms. 
 
 Xll. 
 
 Chile ! Avith grateful feelings I record 
 
 Thy bright example with my feeble hand, 
 
 Tliy course a better prospect does afford 
 
 Of peace and social order, and does stand 
 
 In bold 'relief from out the dark back-ground 
 
 Which shades from view thy sister States around. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Bound by the rugged Andes thy bold coast 
 
 A barren prospect offers to the view, 
 And the' of fertile valleys thou canst boast 
 
 Thv ffifts from Nature's hand are wondrous few. 
 At least upon the surface of the ground, 
 Beneath thy stinted soil rich mines abound, 
 
 XIV. 
 
 As yet thy population too is scant, 
 
 Tho' thy wise rulers anxious to apply 
 A remedy to this most serious want, 
 
 Have cali'd beneath thy heav'niy clime and sky 
 Peasants from other lands thy crops to raise ; 
 A 5tep deserving of the highest praise. 
 
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 XV. 
 
 Encouraged by thy prudence cautious Trade 
 Has pour'd upon thy land a lib'ral share 
 
 Of her choice gifts ; and thy advances made 
 In this respect, are quite beyond compare 
 
 With all the other States which skirt that shore 
 
 Whose echoes answer the Pacific's roar. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Yes, fertile as I've said are thy fair vales 
 
 And healthful is thy mild, benignant clime, 
 
 But still on all thy sea-board there prevails 
 
 A dread chastising scourge from time to time, 
 
 Which sweeps before it with resistless pow'r 
 
 Man's labours of an Age in one brief hour. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 "Tis ardent Noon o'er Talcahuano's bay, 
 
 The mimic waves scarce murmur on its shores, 
 
 With scorching heat the glorious orb of Day 
 Upon the Earth his golden radiance pours, 
 
 The wind is hush'd — a close, oppressive calm 
 
 Against some e\ il near forewarns to arm. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 The sea-birds join their squadrons on the shore 
 And tow'rds the Ocean wing their rapid flight, 
 
 Man's brute companions seek his hand no more 
 But hurry here and there in wild affright, 
 
 E'en faithful watch-dogs seek to gain the hills, 
 
 Whilst ev'rv ear their mournful baying fills. 
 
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 XIX. 
 
 Some secret cause of dread pervades each mind, 
 
 Beneath its weight Man's once proud heart is crush'd, 
 
 O God ! that awful sound of pent-up wind 
 
 As tho' Destruction's Angel past one rush'd, 
 
 A noise like that of wheels or muffled drums, 
 
 And on its mighty wings the Earthquake comes. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Earth's once firm surface staggers to and fro, 
 And here and there in gaping chasms is riv'n, 
 
 Whilst topple to their total overthrow 
 
 The loftiest tow'rs from their foundations driv'n ; 
 
 Behold ! to gain the hills the people flee, 
 
 Their agonizing cry the Sea ! — the Sea .\ 
 
 XXI. 
 
 A fearful cause, alas ! that cry inspired 
 
 And did to this dread scene new terrors lend, 
 
 The Ocean from its basin has retired ! 
 
 horror ! tow'rds those isles your vision bend, 
 
 The mighty waters form a giant wall 
 
 Approaching fast upon the town to fall. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 *T has fall'n — no need that it should fall again, 
 Too well it has perform'd Destruction's task, 
 
 No vestiges of house or street remain. 
 
 All lie conceal'd beneath that wat'ry mask ; 
 
 Those 'scaped from falling house unscathed in limb, 
 
 Upon ita tide as blacken'd corses ewim. 
 
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 XXIII. 
 
 The various barques late anchor'd in the bay, 
 
 Which 'gainst the sky display'd each taper mast, 
 
 Are from their heavy anchors torn away 
 
 And by that monstrous wave together cast ; 
 
 Its impulse ceases, and their hulls remain 
 
 Where late the lowing cattle grazed the plain. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Some days elapse — the boldest hearts now dare 
 To tread that surface which the sea gives back, 
 
 Upon each visage seated blank despair 
 
 To view that horrid scene of woe and 'wrack ;' 
 
 The timid now descend their fears gone by, 
 
 And all to form new homes their strength apply. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 \ more enchanting and romantic spot 
 
 Than that where Santiago's city stands, 
 
 It never yet has fallen to my lot 
 
 To witness in my course through many lands, 
 
 Who can the scene from "San Cristoval" view 
 
 And not acknowledge my assertion true. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 Around the city's skirts a plain expands 
 
 Smiling with vineyards in the fair sunlight, 
 
 Whilst ev'ry tow'r within its precincts stands 
 In bold "relief," from out a sky so bright 
 
 That not e'en Italy can bring to view 
 
 A summer sky of more cerulean hue. 
 
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 XXVII. 
 And i n tlie distance tho' their height and size 
 
 Persuade the eye that they are not remote, 
 The Cordillera's snowy summits rise 
 
 So rugged and severe one seems to note 
 On each stern frontispiece a wish t' efface 
 Man's pigmy city at their giant base. 
 
 XXVIlL 
 
 (4 rand are the Alameda's lofty rows 
 
 Of verdant poplars — grand the ' Tajamar' — 
 
 Pleasant the gurgling stream which ever flows 
 Cooling the heated air and hurrying far 
 
 Oifenrsive matters from each sev'ral street, 
 
 Which as their centre in the ' Plaza' meet. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 And fair and lovely here is that dear sex 
 
 Whose fond persuasion soothes Man's rugged heart, 
 
 And with their pretty coquetry they vex 
 As woll in ^his as any other part 
 
 Of lower Earth — but this i? dang'rous ground — 
 
 God bless them all where'er they ma}- be found. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Away, away, once more the passion rules 
 
 Which prompts to change of scene from time to time. 
 Bring forth the steeds, equip the patient mules, 
 
 For now our destined path conducts to climb 
 The lofty peaks of Ande.s, capp'd with snow.s 
 Whose earliest date of fall no mortal knows- 
 
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 XXXI. 
 
 Woudrous are all God's works — but 'midst the whole 
 None are with such dread majesty endow'd 
 
 Or with like silent awe pervade the soul, 
 
 As mountain-peaks which soar above each cloud 
 
 Approach vain -glorious Man and own at length 
 
 The puny weakness of thy boasted strength. 
 
 XXXII. 
 Oh ! 'tis a sight terrific and sublime 
 
 To gaze upon those giants of our world, 
 How calmly they have braved the touch of Time 
 
 Which has from life to death in myriads hurl'd 
 Man's feeble race : — beyond description grand 
 Those vast and tow'ring peaks before you stand. 
 
 XXXIII. 
 Thoughts of our utter nothingness pervade 
 
 The grave, reflecting breast, when fix'd the eye 
 Upon those mountain-pinnacles arrayed 
 
 In silent pomp against the azure sky ; 
 The haughtiest minds confess the chast'ning rod 
 And humbly bow themselves to Nature's God. 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 Save the majestic condor hov'ring near 
 
 Upon those summits naught of life is found, 
 
 Whilst not the smallest sound salutes the ear, 
 But blank, appalling silence reigns around — 
 
 And as you cross the beds of frozen snow 
 
 More startling still that silence seems to grow. 
 
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 XXXV. 
 
 Aias' for him by tempest here o'erta'en, 
 
 Who trav'Uing late amidst these realms of snow 
 
 When Winter has commenced its cruel reign, 
 Is doom'd a ling'ring death to undergo; 
 
 What bitter anguish must pervade his mind, 
 
 What thoughts of friends and comforts left beliind. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 What torture his when raised his closing eyes 
 No cheering prospects of escape appear. 
 
 And his fast- failing, anxious gaze espies 
 No sign to intimate that help is near ; 
 
 What horror ! when the fast-increasing drift 
 
 Continues round his form its walls to lift. 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 Upon my iMem'ry's tablets long will dwell 
 
 The strongly-mark'd impression there received, 
 
 When, cross'd the ridge, within a narrow dell 
 Hard by our miscall'd roadway we perceived 
 
 An humble crucifix to mark the spot 
 
 WMiere such had proved some former traveler's lot. 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 The mountain torrents by their fall impell'd 
 
 To a velocity which thought defies, 
 Are from the boundless snow-beds ever swell'd, 
 
 And with a sullen roar which speech denies 
 Roll giant stones amidst their foam and spray 
 Whilst through the living rock they cut their way. 
 
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 XXXI X. 
 
 A glance upon its current would o'errule 
 
 Your Reason's seat whilst in the torrent"^ bed, 
 
 Draw not your rein — your sure, sagacious mule 
 Requires not human guidance here to tread — 
 
 One falt'ring step and man and beast were lost, 
 
 A shudder — plunge — and rise — and you have cross'd. 
 
 XL. 
 
 \ narrow vale through which we wound our way. 
 
 Enabled us some faint idea to form 
 Of the wild uproar which these hills display, 
 
 When the terrific Spirit of the Storm 
 Walks madly here in all his giant force, 
 And tracks with havoc his appalling course. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 Upon the soil huge rocks lay strew'd around, 
 
 Hurl'd from the frowning heights on either side, 
 
 Whilst the uneven surface of the ground 
 
 Was plough'd with crevices both deep and wide, 
 
 And all that valley's bounds were black and bare 
 
 As though a water-spout had fallen there. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 We pass'd that dismal vale in daylight's hour. 
 E'en then its gloomy horrors fill'd our minds, 
 
 What must these be when felt the Tempest's pow'r, 
 When Lightning's vivid glare the vision blinds, 
 
 When Thunder's awful peals its confines fill, 
 
 Their deaf'nirg crash return'd fron) hill to hill : 
 
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 XLIII. 
 
 When, fed by rain, the gullies downward pour 
 Their thousand cataracts 'mid foam and mist, 
 
 Whilst meeting winds contend with boist'rous roar 
 As though each would on mastery insist, 
 
 And over all is cast Night's sable veil : — 
 
 Before that scene the stoutest heart would quail. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 One night — it was a night serenely fair — 
 
 Upon the ground we form'd our welcome bed, 
 
 Whilst not a breath of wind disturb'd the air, 
 
 Through whose transparent veil Night's crescent shpd 
 
 Her calm, cold lustre o'er the little plain, 
 
 From Avhich you climb Portillo's pass to gain. 
 
 XLV. 
 
 The lofty peaks of Andes ranged around, 
 
 Were bathed in liquid beams of ambient light, 
 Each boldly-jutting crag and snow-capp'd mound 
 
 Shining like silver to th' enraptured siglit ; 
 Befitting words are wanting to express 
 The scone as view'd in that enchanting dress : 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 Or to convey the holy sense of caltn 
 
 Which stealing o'er us did each l)reast pervade, 
 Acting upon the spirit as a balm 
 
 To heal the rankling wounds within it made 
 Whilst dwelling in that den of passions vile, 
 The lower world Avhicli wo had left crcwhilo. 
 
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 XLVIl. 
 Here far above the petty cares of Earth 
 
 Breathing a thrice pure atmosphere we stood, 
 AVhere no ambitious ])rojects have their birth, 
 
 No human savage sheds his brother's blood, 
 Upon a spot where Lust's dominions cease, 
 And where, by Man abjured, still lingers Peace. 
 
 XL VIII. 
 
 I'hc foll'wing morn at day-break's charming hour 
 A scene display'd itself before our eyes, 
 
 Which far excefeds the pen's descriptive pow'r 
 And Painting's feeble art as much defies, 
 
 For vain both Artist's brush and Poet's plume. 
 
 Which to depict its beauties should presume. 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 The rising orb of Day its earliest light 
 
 Upon the loftiest snow-crown'd summits threw, 
 
 Which laid aside their robe of spotless white 
 To don a garment of a roseate hue. 
 
 Whilst lower peaks and vales their shadows kept, 
 
 And in the 'sombre' garb of darkness slept. 
 
 Slowly and by degrees ih' increasing rays 
 
 O'er objects far and near themselves diffused, 
 
 Until the Sun with warm and vivid blaze 
 Had over ail his golden light suffused, 
 
 And by th' intenseness of his beams reveal'd 
 
 Whate'er the darkness had thus far conceal'd. 
 
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 Li. 
 
 The tvvo-f^jld summits cross'd we wound our way 
 Through an expanding valley's tortuous course, 
 
 And Nature here has treated to display 
 
 Her wondrous charms in all their grandeur's force ; 
 
 i)ea{' beyond hope of cure must be that ear 
 
 Which does not catch her magic music here. 
 
 LIT. 
 ]Jeath — horror — desolation reign'd around 
 
 Whilst o'er those frowning steeps we forced our way, 
 And now with pleasure did our hearts rebound 
 
 When we discern'd some humble fioAv'rets gay 
 Upon a torrent's banks, whose waters roar'd 
 Betwixt those hills which o'er our pathway soar'd. 
 
 LIII. 
 It seem'd that we for years had bid adieu 
 
 To all that we before had known as Earth, 
 And here were ent'ring on her realms anew, 
 
 Experiencing a kind of second birth ; 
 For long in retrospect appear'd the time 
 Since we commenced those awful steeps to climb, 
 
 LIV. 
 
 Still on— the vale grew wider and less stern, 
 
 Till our abrupt, tho' winding pathw^ay gains 
 
 A point of view from which we can discern 
 
 The wide expanse which Ibrms IVIendoza's plains ; 
 
 And 'midst a furious storm against us hurl'd 
 
 We pass'd those gales 'twixt Man's and Nature's world. 
 
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 LV. 
 
 Brief period in Mendoza we abode, 
 
 Too anxious to pursue our forward way, 
 
 For though we had those giant peaks o'erstrode, 
 Our yet remaining lengthy journey lay 
 
 For many a league o'er that enormous plain^ 
 
 By crossing which La Plata's shores you gain, 
 
 LVI. 
 Here, left each faithful steed and patient mule, 
 
 We did their carrying offices exchange 
 For a conveyance which "the roast would rule" 
 
 E'en in "Hyde Park," as coach of form most strange ; 
 And rare, I ween, the thing of carriage kind 
 Which 'midst that bustling throng would gazers find. 
 
 LVIL 
 Some limping stanzas of my verse declare 
 
 To that deep silence which its rule maintains^ 
 Amidst the Cordillera's summits bare ; 
 
 But when on these so-seemiog endless plains, 
 More novel and impressive still is found 
 This utter absence of external sound. 
 
 LVIII. 
 
 Well do we know when some prevailing cause 
 
 To Man an outward faculty denies, 
 Nature's benignant, all-providing laws 
 
 Supply the "vacuum" by arrangement wis&,. 
 Thus the "unfortunates" deprived of sight, 
 in souiidfl harmonious ever take delight. 
 
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 LIX. 
 
 Vnd oil this principle I would explain, 
 
 Why the wrapt stillness on each tow'iing height 
 
 Less vivid impress caus'd upon the brain 
 
 Than on these trackless plains; — whilst there the sight 
 
 Within its range could nuni'rous forms descry, 
 
 Here nothing met our view but Earth and Sky. 
 
 LX. 
 
 And boundless was the prospect — as at sea 
 
 The vast horizon merges in the wavei-, 
 So here nor living thmg, nor hiJl, nor tree 
 
 Upon your course the eye's attention craves, 
 Unless a timid deer should meet the sight, 
 Or ostrich scudding with the speed of light. 
 
 Lxr. 
 
 Methought that when the waters of the deep 
 
 [lad at the gen'ral Deluge burst each bound, 
 
 O'ertopping ev'ry hill and giant steep 
 
 Until the Cordillera's peaks were drown'd, 
 
 And having thus produced the end desired, 
 
 To seek their former limits back retired : 
 
 LXII. 
 
 The vast, collected wave had roU'd its course 
 
 Across the surface of this mighty plain, 
 And sweeping onwards with resistless force 
 
 Had by this channel found i!s bed again ; 
 So smooth and even is this 'prairie' ground. 
 Where not the smallest pebble may be ibund. 
 
LXIII. 
 And all the surface of this level laud 
 
 Js with an ever-verdant carpet spread, 
 Due solely to kind Nature's bounteous hand. 
 
 For rare the hurhan foot which here does tread ; 
 It seem'd to me that all of cattle kind 
 Which Earth contains, might here their pasture find. 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 On first reflection we can scarce explain 
 
 Why, when long-settled countries o'erabound 
 
 With human life, upon this desert plain 
 A scarcity— nay, utter want — is found, 
 
 But after-thought an argument supplies 
 
 Which bids us own herein arrangement wise. 
 
 LXV. 
 
 Too oft, alas ! those enterprising bands 
 
 Which have their homes and native country left, 
 To seek that sustenance in barb'rous lands 
 
 Of which they were on their own soil bereft, 
 'Mid scenes of crime and bloodshed have expell'd 
 Those who the nev/. found land had thereto held. 
 
 LXVI. 
 
 A long, a harr'wing, yet instructive page 
 
 Might on this weighty subject here be read^ 
 
 But rare these slaughters in the present Age, 
 And 'tis not my intention here to tread 
 
 Back in the footstepsoftho.se by.gonc times, 
 
 Or open out their catalogue of crimes. 
 
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 LXVIT. 
 
 But to my (i)rnicr stanzas to revert, 
 
 (And well the subject does our thoughts demand,) 
 Whene'er fresh, colonizing swarms desert 
 
 Their native homes to seek a foreign strand, 
 "Tis well ihcy find the land of people clear — 
 No need lo thin the population here ! 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 Far on the Idue horizon we can trace 
 
 An object in "reliefs against the sky, 
 And as we clear the intervening space 
 
 We better can its character descry, 
 And find we have presented to our view 
 A "pampas" fortofkind to us quite new. 
 
 LXIX. 
 Tall "cactus" shrubs arranged in two-fold rows, 
 
 (Round which is dug a ditch both deep and wide,) 
 A given portion of the plain enclose, 
 
 Within whose space the peasantry reside 5 
 Another like enclosure skirts one end, 
 Jn which their flocks and herds are nightly penn'd. 
 
 LXX. 
 
 Without such measure of precaution ta'en, 
 
 The peasantry of ev'ry aid bereft, 
 No longer could this border-ground maintain, 
 
 Thus at the mercy of the Indians left, 
 
 Who often o'er the neighb'ring bound'rios ride, 
 
 And scatter devastation far and wide. 
 
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Lxxr. 
 
 What wondei" that these children of the soil 
 
 Should in this form their fierce revenge display,. 
 
 And strive to render back 'midst blood and spoil, 
 Their barb'rous treatment at a former day^ 
 
 When Spain enacted in a higher grade, 
 
 Tliose horrors which attend an Indian '>raid.* 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 And rare the *>pale-face» whom his evil chance 
 Across the path of these stern foes has thrown, 
 
 Who has escaped the vengeance of their lance ; 
 
 Altliough at times they have compassion shown, 
 
 When men of rank or uealth have offers made 
 Of ransom for their safety to be paid. 
 
 LXXIII. 
 Upon our route we cross'd a small ravine, 
 
 Which at a ^-ecent period, we were told, 
 Had form'd the ;:ildof action of a scene 
 
 W'hose bare recital makes the blood rua cold • 
 Ja truth few talis of horror can exceed 
 TJie cruel sternness of that savage deed. 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 Across the plains a party in a coach 
 
 Were journeying, and at the close of day 
 
 They ciianced tlie borders of this dell t' approacii, 
 Where by a stream some Indian warriors lav : 
 
 To oveiwhelming numbers forced to yield, 
 
 The Indians rested masters of the field. 
 
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 LXXV. 
 
 T!ie trav'llers with their foes a compact iiiade, 
 
 That for the party ransom to obtain 
 One should depart, hut till 'twas duly paid 
 
 His wife with various others should remain ; 
 L'nfortunates! amidst that horrid file 
 What anguisli must have wrung their breasts the Avhile. 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 Days must elapse before the wish'd relief 
 
 Could reach the spot, and since to weep were vain. 
 
 The lady's gentleness so sooth'd the chief, 
 
 That feelings almost friendly 'gan to reign 
 
 Amongst the whole; when, lo ! the watchful spies 
 
 Of military near at hand apprise. 
 
 LXXVII. 
 
 Witii savage fury scowl'd each Indian's brow, 
 
 Whilst thoughts of vengeance '^-an their breasts to fill, 
 
 Alas ! no succour for that party now. 
 
 Their captors' quick resolve was all to kill, 
 
 Convinced that they were play'd some treach'rous game, 
 
 As whose result this force upon tliem came. 
 
 L XXVIII. 
 
 The hapless husband shortly too appear 'd, 
 
 The stipulated price of freedom found, 
 But that fair, tender form to him endear'd, 
 
 O, horror! now lay mangled on tlio ground : 
 What tongue can utter, or what language show 
 His crushing sense of agonv and woe ? 
 
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 LXXIX. 
 
 One of my past asscrlions ought to be 
 
 With certain measure of exception ta'eu, 
 
 'Tis that which intimates that not a tree 
 
 Adoras the surface of this 'monster plaiii : 
 
 The truth is this, tho' trees do not abound, 
 
 A strao-frlinji wood mav here and there be found. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 Invoking to your presence Fancy's aid, 
 And waking Memory, an English park 
 
 Is on the like occasions straight display'd, 
 
 With the chief features which its scenery mark : 
 
 I mean tliose shady clumps of trees which stand 
 
 hi picturesque disorder o'er the land. 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 From hence did flock:; of paroquets salute 
 
 Our ears with harsh and unmclodious scream, 
 
 And long accustom'd now to regions nnate 
 
 The sound to us did almost startling seem : 
 
 But here I would a trifling moment halt. 
 
 Fearing to lead my readers into fault. 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 For well I know that many folks who read 
 Of paroquets, will straightway understand 
 
 That where such birds inhabit must of need 
 Be some bright, sunny, almost fairy land, 
 
 Stock'd with strange trees — the plantain or the palm— 
 
 With other attributes of climates warm. 
 
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 ' LXXXIII. 
 
 And thus opining in the present case 
 
 He would into a grievous error fall, 
 \\ liich 'tis my present purpose to erase, 
 
 No tropic features mark this scene at all, 
 Unless they be a bright, cerulean sky, 
 A nd the abovenamed birds which chatt'ring fly. 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 What contrast do the muddy streams which flow 
 
 With sluggish current through this verdant plain. 
 Form to those torrents which the Andes owe, 
 
 Whose boist'rous force to picture words were vain 
 Yet from tliis broad assertion one yclept 
 Tlie, 'Rio Cuarto'I would here except. 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 For Avhilst the 'Pampas' rivers use to creep 
 
 With lazy tide 'twixt banks both low and drear, 
 
 A rapid stream with borders high and steep 
 
 "Was that which flash'd upon our vision here : 
 
 Tired of the wide-spread flats no eye can fail 
 
 Its broken, wooded shores with joy to hail. 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 A circumstance which threaten'd to present 
 
 An obstacle our progress to debar. 
 Forced us to lay aside our first intent 
 
 And seek the borders of the 'Parana,' 
 A noble stream whose rapid current smiles 
 'Twixt lofty banks and densely-wooded isles. 
 
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 Lxxxvn. 
 
 Anid here I would my narrative susp(Mid, 
 
 Merely in brief parenth'sis to observe, 
 The tract of plain o'er which our route did bend 
 
 When from our course we were compell'd to swervev 
 More num'rous herds presented to our view, 
 Than any other district travell'd througii. 
 
 LXXXVUI. 
 
 But to resume, — th' above majestic stream 
 
 Is full of int'rest at the present hour, 
 When measures which with future good must teem. 
 
 Are brought to issue by Great Britain's pow'r, 
 Resolv'd her merchants should their fortunes try 
 In that strange Western China — Paraguay- 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 What weighty motives here themselves display 
 
 To stimulate Man's enterprising mind, 
 Ere long his giant vassal 'Steam' its way 
 
 Upon these mighty rivers, too, will find, 
 This wondrous water-chain which seems t' invite • 
 Our aid the two great Oceans to unite- 
 
 XC. 
 
 Thrice happy we t' have fallen on these days, 
 
 Which well we may the 'Age ingenious' call,. 
 
 In which Invention such resource displays, 
 That no opposing obstacles appal 
 
 Man's active mind, where'er his aim extends, 
 
 Obedient to his will great Nature bends. 
 
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 XCI. 
 
 And Avliat right-judging bosom docs nol dnd 
 .Matter more fit th' attention to engage, 
 
 In these ennobling triumphs of the Mind 
 
 Which prominently mark the present Age, 
 
 Than in those trophies which the murd'rous sword 
 
 For countless years has striven to afford. 
 
 XCII. 
 What are the odious pages writ in blood, 
 
 Whose lecture pains the heart and dims the eye, 
 To that rich store of literary food 
 
 W^hich gentle Learning's Iiallow'd tomes supply ; 
 What, the vain honors of the battle field, 
 Compared with those which Art and Science yield, 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 O! when will Man abjure War's murd'rous brands 
 And cease from off the Earth his kind to slay, 
 
 Reflecting that such wide-extended lands, 
 
 Waste and uncultured at the present day^ 
 
 Ailbrd in this the 'New World' ample space 
 
 For unborn myriads of the human race^ 
 
 XCIV. 
 And apropos of that expression 'Ncw,^ 
 
 The speculators on our Planet's age,. 
 Have lately had presented to their view 
 
 Some facts most apt th' attention to engage, 
 Since from their scope that hemisphere appears^ 
 To be consid'rably advanced in years. 
 
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 xcv, 
 
 In Yucatan as 'tis most widely known, 
 
 Remains of cities vast have been display'd 
 
 To view, around whose ruins trees have grown 
 To form a dense, compact and gloomy shade j 
 
 A circumstance which would appear to show 
 
 That they remote antiquity must owe. 
 
 XCVI. 
 
 Here is an antidote to thirst of Fame — 
 
 Reflect that these huge '^cities of the dead'' 
 
 Are all unknown, and o'er the very name 
 
 Of those who throng'd their streets oblivion shod i 
 
 O ! what a blow is here to earthly pride, — 
 
 We only know they lived — becm/se they died. 
 
 XCVII. 
 
 The iate discov'ry, too, of fossil bones 
 
 Upon La Plata's plains, has caused surprise, 
 
 Since being of a kind which Earth not owns 
 Upon her surface now, 'thas given rise 
 
 To "pond'ring much" amongst the folks styled sage* 
 
 As to the New World's veritable age. 
 
 XCVIII. 
 
 IIow eloquent these lessons are — how apt 
 To Man becoming humbleness to teach f 
 
 For say they not to each these wonders wrapt 
 In clouds of myst'ry far beyond our reach, 
 
 Barriers there are which thou canst ne'er o'erthrow; 
 
 Terpsum nosce — Learn thyself to know. 
 
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 XCIX. 
 
 My thread is spun— the 'wand'rer's' tale is told — 
 A few leagues onward and our gaze descried 
 
 La Plata's broad, majestic stream which roll'd 
 On tow'rds the sea its slow and copious tide : 
 
 Alas ! its once calm banks of late have been 
 
 The acting-ground of many a battle-scene. 
 
 C. 
 
 One parting word — and be it to our shame — 
 
 In all those countries where my feet have strayed, 
 
 Still have I found Man's selfish heart the same, 
 Its fiend-like malice here as there displayed : 
 
 In ev'ry region bounteous Nature smiled, 
 
 Whilst Man on ev'ry hand her works defiled. 
 
NOTES TO CANTO I. 
 
 Stanza III. — Saiut Helen's — a poetical license for Saint Helena's. 
 
 XV. XVI. — Allusion is made in the=e stanzas to the lamented ideatli 
 of a gentleman, an officer in the Houorahle East India Company'.s 
 
 Service, who was unfortunately killed on board the H. C. S. M 
 
 C , when the latter was entering Bombay harbour, by a shot fired 
 
 from a vessel stationed below the usual anciioring'-grouud to enforce 
 quarantine regulations, promulgated in consequence of the appearance 
 of the plague at some points in the Persian Gulf. — Rtquiescat in pace. 
 
 XXIV. XXV. — The caves of Elephanta and those of Eilora are too well known 
 to require any more particular allusion to those wonders of Hindu skill 
 in the art of sculpture. 
 
 XXXIV. — All honor to Lord William Bentinck for his philanthropic legisla- 
 tion whilst Governor-General of India, in practically abolishing the 
 *'Suttee,*' or burning of widows, throughout British India. 
 
 Ij. — He who passes through Garden Reach — a bend of the river Hoogly below 
 Calcutta — does not readily forget that beauteous scene. 
 
 LIII. — The Botanical Garden of Government, situated on the banks of the 
 Hoogly in Garden Reach, and, at the period referred to, under the able 
 superintendence of Dr. Wallich, is one of the finest establishments of 
 the kind in the world. The Hindu College is a noble edifice, and de- 
 dicated to noble purposes. 
 
 LX. — The Fakeers, or religious mendicants of Ilindostan, practise the most 
 rigid austerities in accordance with their false creed. 
 
 LXIX. — Amongst other novelties to be seen at Dacca, is a stud of elephants, 
 retained there by the British Government for commissariat purposes. 
 At the period of my visit to these stables, there were upwards of two 
 hundred of the huge animals in question attached to the stud. 
 
 LXXXVIII. — Ty-foongs — dreadful hurricanes which prevail in the China Sea, 
 more particularly at or about the period of the autumnal equinox. 
 
 XCIII. — Generally termed by us Canton — and perhaps with more strict regard 
 to orthoepy — Kwang-tuiig. 
 
 CANTO II. 
 
 II. — Caciques, a word of three syllab'es. 
 
 XVII. to XXIV. — Tiie great earthquake which a few years since <lesOlated 
 Concepcion, in the south of Chile, is already well known. 
 
 XLIV. — The pass called »Portillo" is situated at an elevation of twelve thou- 
 sand feet above the level of the sea. The Andes, in this part of their 
 extension, form a double chain, and tlie view from the highest point 
 attained into the desolate valley intervening between the two ridges 
 of the Cordillera, is one of the wildest imaginable. A more apt figuring 
 forth of chaotic confusion, it were difficult to conceive. 
 
 LXXIII. to LXXVIIL— Allusion is here made to an occurrence which had 
 place on the large plains which intervene between the city of Bueuo.? 
 Ayres and the Cordillera of the Andes. 
 
 XCVII- — Bones of antediluvian animals are from time to time c.xhumed in 
 the neighbourhood of some of the rivers which traverse the vast plains 
 alluded to above. 
 
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