STILL WOULD I LIVE TO KULSE THE BEACON FIRE
LIST CES ESS TITE SHOULD LET THE BLAZE EXTIRE.
ANL MINI A RESILLS HO KUWATCHDAH SAK
AND MENING AME AND STILL HOT WAST AFAR

THE SHIPWRECK.

He had an only daughter, call'd Haidée
The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles;
Besides, so very beautiful was she,

Her dowry was as nothing to her smiles:
Still in her teens, and like a lovely tree,

She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn

How to accept a better in his turn.

And walking out upon the beach, below

The cliff, towards sunset, on that day she found, Insensible, not dead, but nearly so,

Don Juan, almost famish'd, and half drown'd;

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Yet deem'd herself in common pity bound,
As far as in her lay, "to take him in,
A stranger" dying, with so white a skin.