AUSTRALIA. The climate's delicate; the air most sweet; Fertile the isle. WINTER'S TALE. What, replied Franklin, is the use of a new-born child?— It may become a man! AUSTRALIA. PART I. ISLE of the ocean!-Zion of the seas! Child of the waves !—and nursling of the breeze !— How beauteous, Albion! on thy lonely steep, Thou risest, like a vision, in the deep! The temple of the brave, the good, the free, Built, by some spirit, in the circling sea!- Still hast thou floated, like a thing of light, Where Freedom sheltered, when the world was dark; When Science left her eastern home for thee, And nestled, like the halcyon, in the sea! Rome of the waters!-on thy sea-girt rock," In fairy state, on emerald couch reclined, Streams, like a meteor, to the gazing world!— |