But Albert from behind the balance drew,
And on the prow its double efforts threw.
The order now was given to bear away!
The order given, the timoneers obey:

Both stay-sails sheets to mid-ships were conveyed,
And round the foremast on each side belayed;
Thus ready, to the halyards they apply,

They hoist! away the flitting ruins fly :
Yet Albert new resources still prepares,
Conceals his grief, and doubles all his cares.-
66 Away there! lower the mizen-yard on deck,"
He calls," and brace the foremast yards aback!"
His great example every bosom fires,

New life enkindles, and new hope inspires.
While to the helm unfaithful still she lies,

One desperate remedy at last he tries-
"Haste! with your weapons cut the shrouds and stay,
And hew at once the mizen-mast away!"

He said to cut the girding stay they run,
Soon on each side the severed shrouds are gone:
Fast by the fated pine bold Rodmond stands,
Th' impatient axe hung gleaming in his hands;
Brandished on high, it fell with dreadful sound,
The tall mast groaning felt the deadly wound;

Deep gashed beneath, the tottering structure rings,
And crashing, thundering, o'er the quarter swings:
Thus, when some limb, convulsed with pangs of death,
Imbibes the gangrene's pestilential breath,
Th' experienced artist from the blood betrays
The latent venom, or its course delays;
But if th' infection triumphs o'er his art,
Tainting the vital stream that warms the heart,
To stop the course of death's inflaming tides,
Th' infected member from the trunk divides.

END OF THE SECOND CANTO.

THIRD CANTO.

THE SCENE IS EXTENDED FROM THAT PART OF THE ARCHIPELAGO WHICH LIES TEN MILES TO THE NORTHWARD OF FALCONERA, TO CAPE COLONNA IN ATTICA.

THE TIME ABOUT SEVEN HOURS, FROM ONE, UNTIL EIGHT IN THE MORNING.

I. The beneficial influence of Poetry in the civilization of Mankind-Diffidence of the Author.-II. Wreck of the Mizen-mast cleared away-Ship put before the Wind-Labours much-Different stations of the Officers -Appearance of the Island of Falconera.- -III. Excursion to the adjacent Nations of Greece renowned in Antiquity-Athens-Socrates- Plato― Aristides— Solon-Corinth-Its Architecture-Sparta-Leonidas -Invasion by Xerxes-Lycurgus-Epaminondas-Present state of the Spartans-Arcadia-Former happiness and fertility-Its present distress the effect of Slavery -Ithaca-Ulysses and Penelope-Argos and Mycæne --Agamemnon-Macronisi-Lemnos-Vulcan- Delos -Apollo and Diana-Troy-Sestos - Leander and Hero-Delphos-Temple of Apollo-Parnassus—The Muses. IV. Subject resumed-Address to the Spirits of the Storm-A Tempest, accompanied with Rain, Hail, and Meteors-Darkness of the Night, Lightning and Thunder-Day-break-St. George's Cliffs open upon them-The Ship, in great danger, passes the Island of St. George.- -V. Land of Athens appears--Helmsman struck blind by Lightning-Ship laid broadside to the Shore-Bowsprit, Foremast, and Main Top-mast carried away-Albert, Rodmond, Arion, and Palemon strive to save themselves on the wreck of the Foremast -The Ship parts asunder-Death of Albert and Rodmond-Arion reaches the Shore-Finds Palemon expiring on the Beach-His dying Address to Arion, who is led away by the humane Natives.

OCT. 1,1819.