And all the nations in its beauty sleep,
As the vast waters fill the boundless deep !"

Again the vision changes!-o'er my soul,"

58

Mysterious forms and giant shadows roll!-
Vast spectres dimly flit across my mind,
But vague and shapeless,-dark and undefined!-
Strange phantasies in whirling motion run,
And, lo! they meet, and mingle into One,-
One mighty shade,-in shrouding darkness furled,-
Wild as the chaos of an unborn world !--

Till, o'er the phantom gathering vapours roll,

Then spread before me, like a written scroll!

And now, it stands revealed in sudden light,
And all creation opens on my sight!

Far to the east,-where once Aurora's smiles
Looked on an archipelago of isles,

And coral banks upreared their glittering forms,

Like spots of azure in a sky of storms,

Where many a ship has sailed the roaring brine,-
Sits a vast continent upon the Line,

Back from her strand assembled oceans rolls,

And points, with either finger, to the poles !

But where is Africa ?-I seek in vain

Her swarthy form along its native main !___
Methinks, I hear a walling in the wild,
As of a mother weeping o'er her child!--
Her fate lies buried in mysterious night,
Where the wide waters of the globe unite;

And, where the moonlight paved her hills with smiles,

The billows moan amid a hundred isles !

-I turn me from their knelling, with a sigh,

To where a lovelier vision meets the eye;

Where spreads the British name from sun to sun,

And all the nations of the earth are ONE!

NOTES

ΤΟ

AUSTRALIA.