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English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Robert Browning

662. Home-thoughts, from the Sea

NOBLY, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away;

Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;

Bluish ’mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay;

In the dimmest North-east distance dawn’d Gibraltar grand and gray;

‘Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?’—say,

Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray,

While Jove’s planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.