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With worship France proclaims Her approbation, and with pomps and games Heaven grant that other cities may be gay! Calais is not: and I have bent my way To the sea coast, noting that each man frames His business as he likes.
Another time That was, when I was here long years ago, The senselessness of joy was then sublime!" &c. ] [Footnote 43: Witness, among other evidences, the noble sonnet of Wordsworth:-- "TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy Man of Men! Whether the all-cheering sun be free to shed His beams around thee, or thou rest thy head Pillowed in some dark dungeon's noisome den O, miserable chieftain! where and when Wilt thou find patience! Yet die not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow: Though fallen Thyself, never to rise again, Live and take comfort.
Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee--Air, Earth, and Skies; There's not a breathing of the common Wind That will forget thee; thou hast great Allies; Thy friends are Exultations, Agonies, And Love, and Man's unconquerable Mind." ] [Footnote 44: See Wordsworth's sonnet, "22nd Sept.
1802." "We had a fellow-passenger who came From Calais with us, gaudy in array,-- A Negro Woman like a Lady gay, Yet silent as a woman fearing blame; Dejected, meek, yet pitiably tame, She sate, from notice turning not away, But on our proffered kindness still did lay A weight of languid speech, or at the same Was silent, motionless in eyes and face, She was a Negro Woman, driven from France-- Rejected, like all others of that race, Not one of whom may now find footing there; Thus the poor outcast did to us declare, Nor murmured at the unfeeling Ordinance." ] [Footnote 45: Afterwards Sir James.] [Footnote 46: It was by this book that the two dark stories of Jaffa were first promulgated through Europe: and it is proper to add, that Sir R.Wilson publicly presented a copy to George III.
at his levee.].
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