imperial

The very tombs now vanished like their dead!

Imperial wonders raised on nations spoiled,

Where mixed with slaves the groaning martyr toiled:

Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey,

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,

And beauty draws us with a single hair.

We gain’d the mother-city thick with towers,

And in the imperial palace found the king.

the loss involved in even a brief period, of, disaster to the

Imperial Navy? Any amount of money. thnely ex perided, in-

For thine came weeping, a slave among slaves, and rejected; but she

Came flushed from the full-flushed wave, and imperial, her foot on the

sea.

For thine came weeping, a slave among slaves, and rejected; but she

Came flushed from the full-flushed wave, and imperial, her foot on the sea.

And the wonderful waters knew her, the winds and the viewless ways,

And hides a sword from hilts unto the point

With crowns imperial.*'—

since we have only preserved, as trustees to the ashes of the authors, what

we exhibit to your honour, it being no more our own, than those imperial

crowns and garlands were the soldiers', who were honourably designed for