stay;
   Still art thou streaming,—my words are in vain;
Oft-changing winds, with tyrannical sway,
   Lord there below on the time-serving main!

In Romantic Ballads it reads:

Abandon, abandon, thy headlong career—
   But downward thou rushest—my words are in vain,
Bethink thee that oft-changing winds domineer
   On the billowy breast of the time-serving main.

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Runic Verses.  [O the force of Runic verses]

167

Thoughts on Death.  [Perhaps ’tis folly, but still I feel]

Previously printed (under the tentative title Death, and with some small textual variations) in The Monthly Magazine, October, 1823, p. 245.

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Birds of Passage.  [So hot shines the sun upon Nile’s yellow stream]

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The Broken Harp.  [O thou, who, ’mid the forest trees]

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Scenes.  [Observe ye not yon high cliff’s brow]

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The Suicide’s Grave.  [The evening shadows fall upon the grave]

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