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Sir Humphrey Gilbert.



Southward with fleet of ice
 Sailed the corsair Death;
Wild and fast blew the blast,
 And the east-wind was his breath.

His lordly ships of ice
 Glistened in the sun;
On each side, like pennons wide,
 Flashing crystal streamlets run.

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