Kentish lyrics, sacred, rural, and miscellaneous; . eye can reach—in frozen blocks,And thousands of wild sea-birds come and goIn countless flocks. Some paddling on the icebergs, and some flying, In form triangular and number vast;While the swift oxbirds, all in speed outvying,Go sweeping past. Plovers and ducks, and wild geese in abundance, Hover oerhead, or settle on the sea;God sends them in such plentiful redundanceFor all men free. But hark ! a shot with sharp reverberation Ee-echoes loudly from a fowlers boat;And the shrill shriek of fear and consternationAlarm denote. For that one shot,

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Kentish lyrics, sacred, rural, and miscellaneous; . eye can reach—in frozen blocks,And thousands of wild sea-birds come and goIn countless flocks. Some paddling on the icebergs, and some flying, In form triangular and number vast;While the swift oxbirds, all in speed outvying,Go sweeping past. Plovers and ducks, and wild geese in abundance, Hover oerhead, or settle on the sea;God sends them in such plentiful redundanceFor all men free. But hark ! a shot with sharp reverberation Ee-echoes loudly from a fowlers boat;And the shrill shriek of fear and consternationAlarm denote. For that one shot, with well-directed aim, Swept lengthwise through a hundred wings outspread,And over twenty of the ocean gameFall maimed or dead,p 2 io Kentish Lyrics. But evening comes, and oer the darkening skiesIn moving clouds the affrighted birds retreat,Just as the full moons earliest beams ariseSerenely sweet. The rising tide comes moaning toward the beach, Lifting the crisp ice with a measured sea ! as far as eye can reachBelted with Kentish Lyrics. 211

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