All hail to the ruins, the rocks, and the shores !
Thou wide-rolling Ocean, all hail !
Now brilliant with sunbeams and dimpled with oars,
Now dark with the fresh-blowing gale
While soft o'er thy bosom the cloud-shadows sail,
And the silver-winged sea-fowl on high,
Like meteors bespangel the sky,
Or dive in the gulf, or triumphantly ride,
Like foam on the surges, the swans of the tide.

....There are, gloomy Ocean, a brotherless clan,
Who tranverse the banishing waves,
The poor disinherited outcasts of man,
Whom Avarice coins into slaves.
From the home of the kindred, their forefathers' graves,
Love, friendship, and conjugal bliss,
They are dragged on the hoary abyss;
The shark hears their shrieks, and ascending today,
Demands of the spoiler of the prey.

(excerpt from 'The Ocean')
James Montgomery

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