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“* Canst hear,” said one, “ the breakers roar ?
Yonder, methinks, should be the shore ;
Now, where we are, I cannot tell,

But I wish we could hear the Inchcape bell.”

They hear no sound, the swell is strong,
Though the wind has fallen, they drift along,
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock—
“ Alas! it is the Inchcape Rock!”

Sir Ralph the rover tore his hair,

He beat himself in wild despair ;

But the waves rush in on every side,

And the-vessel sinks beneath the tide.
Southey.

THE DESTROYER.

1 saw the Memphian! pyramid
In awful grandeur rise,

Which, like a mighty pillar, seemed
To prop the lofty skies.

. An old man, with a snow white beard,
Across the desert came,
With a long grev robe thrown loosely o'er
His breast and withered frame.

He stood beside the pyramid,
And laid his hand thereon,

When, lo! the pile fell crumbling down,
Till every stone was gone.

' Memphian—belonging to Memphis, a ce'ebrated city of
ancient Egypt, situated on the western bank of the Nile.