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William Cowper - To The Immortal Memory Of The Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784William Cowper - To The Immortal Memory Of The Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784
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Where hast thou floated, in what seas pursued Thy pastime?  When wast thou an egg new spawned, Lost in the immensity of ocean`s waste? Roar as they might, the overbearing winds That rocked the deep, thy cradle, thou wast safe-- And in thy minikin and embyro state, Attached to the firm leaf of some salt weed, Didst outlive tempests, such as wrung and racked The joints of many a stout and gallant bark, And whelmed them in the unexplored abyss. Indebted to no magnet and no chart, Nor udner guidance of the polar fire, Thou wast a voyager on many coasts, Grazing at large in meadows submarine, Where flat Batavia just emerging peeps Above the brine,--where Caledonia`s rocks Beat back the surge,--and where Hibernia shoots Her wondrous causeway far into the main. --Wherever thou hast fed, thou little thoughtst, And I not more, that I should feed on thee Peace, therefore, and good health, and much good fish, To him who sent thee! -- and success, as oft As it descends into the billowy gulf, To the same dreg that caught thee! -- Fare thee well! Thy lot thy brethren of the slimy fin Would envy, could they know that thou wast doomed To feed a bard, and to be praised in verse.
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