"Adieu, LANDOGA, scene most dear, Farewell we bade to ETHEL'S WIER; Round many a point then bore away, Till morn was chang'd to beauteous day: And forward on the lowland shore, Silent majestic ruins wore The stamp of holiness; this strand The steersman hail'd, and touch'd the land."
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Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield (December 3, 1766 – August 19, 1823) was a self-educated English peasant poet.
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