Note A — Chapter I · INTRODUCTORY. 1498-1503.
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The scene, well-deserving to be painted, might be described in the following lines:—
“As rolls the river into ocean, In sable torrent wildly streaming; As the sea-tide’s opposing motion, In azure column proudly gleaming, Beats back the current many a rood In curling foam and mingling flood; Through sparkling spray, in thundering clash, The lightnings of the waters flash In awful whiteness o’er the shore, That shines and shakes beneath the roar.” The Giaour.