HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA. (PAGE 70.)

This poem is a companion piece to _Home Thoughts, from Abroad_.

It is, however, distinctly inferior to it in clearness, vividness of

feeling, and lyric sweetness.

3. =Trafalgar=, The scene of the famous victory of the English

admiral, Nelson, over the French fleet in 1805.

4. =Gibraltar=. The famous rocky promontory at the entrance of the

Mediterranean. It has been held as an English fort since 1704.

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