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Lang, John Dunmore: Written On Board The Medway, Off Hobart Van Dieman's Land - ZaunköniG - 07.05.2012 John Dunmore Lang 1799 - 1878 Großbritannien / Australien Written On Board The Medway, Off Hobart Van Dieman's Land O I COULD gaze the live-long summer-day On such a scene as fills the raptured eye In this fair haven! Mountains that reach the sky Rise on the right and left, shadowing the bay With their huge forms, and diadem'd with grey And castellated rocks, whose hues may vie With the dark tints o'the sombre drapery That waves i'the wind adown their sides for ay. Yet all is wild and waste, save where the hand Of man, with long-continued toil and care, Has won a little spot of blooming land From the vast cheerless forest here and there! So is the moral world - a desart drear Where but a few green spots amid the waste appear! |