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CANTO XII.
THE RETURN.

On the mainland stood the sun,
Looking westward o'er the water,
Till its glassy surface shone,
Crimson as a field of slaughter.
Wrapped in lightest autumn-haze
Amroom rested on the ocean,
Whose broad breast had heaved for days
Only with a tidal motion.
Not a breeze, in cloudy car,
O'er the morning sky was sweeping ;
Hushed, all nature, near and far,
Lay as in the calmest sleeping.
Shepherds, silent as the scene.