...all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay 1635 Has dried up realms to deserts: - not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time...

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...qualified immediately by a prayerlike verse apostrophizing the sea as a mighty emblem of Divinity.32 Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed - in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime...

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...Greece. Rome. Carthage. what are thev? Thy waters washed their power while they were free. And manj a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger. slave. or savage: their decay lIas dried up realms to desarts [...]. Jerome McGann pinpoints the great importance of this stanza...

...to place Byron's at first sight strange use of 'sublime' in his great invocation in Cbilde Harold: Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time — Calm or convuls'd — in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the Pole, or in the torrid...