MAZU'PA.

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„My blood rcflow’d, though thick and chill;»My ear with uncouth noises rang,jjMy heart began once more to thrill;j,My sight return’d, though dim; alas l„And thicken’d, as it were, with glass.jjMethonght the dash of waves was nigh;

„There was a gleam too of the sky, 58o

>,Studded with stars; — it is no dream;

>,Tlie wild horse swims the wilder stream!

„The bright broad river’s gushing tide„Sweeps, winding onward, far and wide,

„And we are half-way, struggling o’er„To yon unknown and silent shore.

„Tlie waters broke my hollow trance,

>,And with a temporary strength

„My stiffen’d limbs were rebaptized.

»,My courser’s broad breast proudly braves, 59“„And dashes oil’ the ascending waves,j,And onward we advance!

>>Wc reach the slippery shore at length,

»A haven I but little prized,

»Tor all behind was dark and drear,