DOVER CLIFFS. William Lisle Bowles Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street... 1855 p. 12.

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DOVER CLIFFS . On these white cliffs , that calm above the flood Uprear their shadowing heads , and at their feet Hear not the surge that has for ages beat , How many a lonely wanderer has stood ! And , whilst the lifted murmur met his ear , And o'er the distant billows the still eve Sailed slow , has thought of all his heart must leave To-morrow ; of the friends he loved most dear ; Of social scenes , from which he wept to part ! Oh ! if , like me , he knew how fruitless all The thoughts that would full fain the past recall , Soon would he quell the risings of his heart , And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide — The World his country , and his God his guide .