Bade new distresses every instant grow, Marking each change of place with change of woe; Or where pale famine blasts the hopeful year, Or where, all-dreadful in th' embattled line, Though jarring sounds the measured verse prolong, And lo! the power that wakes th' eventful song, In her right hand an ample roll appears, Fraught with long annals of preceding years, Since first the circling hours their course began; She sails; and swifter than the course of light The fugitive ideas she restores, And calls the wandering thought from Lethe's shores; To things long past a second date she gives, She shares her power, and Memory is her name. Assailed by tempests, girt with hostile shores Arise! approach! unlock thy treasured stores! Full on my soul the dreadful scene display, And give its latent horrors to the day. ARGUMENT. I. Retrospect of the Voyage-Arrival at Candia-State of that Island-Season of the Year described.-II. Character of the Master and his Officers, Albert, Rodmond, and Arion-Palemon, Son to the Owner of the ShipAttachment of Palemon to Anna, the Daughter of Albert.III. Noon-Palemon's History.-IV. Sunset-Midnight-Arion's Dream-Unmoor by Moonlight -Morning-Sun's Azimuth taken-Beautiful Appearance of the Ship, as seen by the Natives from the Shore. |