Capel Lofft - To the Sea: Written on the Beach at Aldborough lyrics

Thou awful sea!--upon this shingly beach Of Aldborough I pace:--my gazing eye Thy world of waters lost in the dim sky Admiring, and thy echoing waves, that teach, In voice of thunder, more than tongue can preach; The knell of ages past and pa**ing by; And claim their ancient Empire o'er the dry And solid Earth; each animating each. Of towns long sunk, o'er which thy wild waves roar, Of sea to land, of land to ocean turn'd, I muse: and mourn, that who could amplest pour Homeric tones on thy resounding shore Porson is dead!--That sea of Grecian lore Unbounded, in the abyss of fate inurn'd.