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=Mablethorpe=

[Published in Manchester Athænaum Album, 1850. Written, 1837. Republished, altered, in Life, vol. I, p. 161.]

How often, when a child I lay reclined, I took delight in this locality! Here stood the infant Ilion of the mind, And here the Grecian ships did seem to be.

And here again I come and only find The drain-cut levels of the marshy lea,-- Gray sand banks and pale sunsets--dreary wind, Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy clouded sea.