Unchanging seasons have their march begun ; Seen through thick clouds, by Faith's transpiercing eyes, The New Creation shines in purer skies. --All hail !---the age of crime and suffering ends; Is one with GOD, and GOD is All in All! END OF THE FOURH AND LAST PART. NOTES. PART I. Note a.-page 85. Far as Niger rolls his eastern tide. Mungo Parke, in his travels, ascertained that "the great river of the Negroes" flows eastward. It is probable, therefore, that this river is either lost among the sands, or empties itself into some inland sea, in the undiscovered regions of Africa.--See also Part II. line 64. Note b. p. 88. Denied to ages, but betrothed to me. When the author of The West-Indies conceived the plan of this introduction of Columbus, he was not aware that he was indebted to any preceding poet for a hint on the subject; but, some time afterwards, on a second perusal of SOUTHEY'S MADOC, it struck him that the idea of Columbus walking on the shore at sunset, which he had hither imagined his own, might be only a reflection of the impression made upon his mind long before, by the first reading of the following splendid passage. He therefore gladly made this acknowledgment, though at his own expense, in justice to the author of the noblest narrative Poem in the English Language, after the FAERIE QUEENE, and PARADISE LOST. 'When evening came, toward the echoing shore, Bright with dilated glory shone the west; ‹ The burnish'd, silver sea, that heav'd and flash'd "Prince" quoth Cadwallon, "thou hast rode the waves "In triumph, when the Invader felt thine arm. "O! what a nobler conquest might be won "There, upon that wide field!"---' What meanest thou?' 'I cried ;'---" That yonder waters are not spread "A boundless waste, a bourn impassable; "That thou shouldst rule the elements ;---that there "Might manly courage, manly wisdom find "Some happy isles some undiscovered shore, "Some resting place for peace. O! that my soul "Could seize the wings of morning! soon would I "Behold that other world, where yonder sun "Now speeds to dawn in glory." |