Browning's Shorter Poems: Home Thoughts, From the Sea

Home Thoughts, From the Sea

Nobly, nobly, Cape Saint Vincent to the Northwest died away;
Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;
Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar  lay;                   3
In the dimmest Northeast distance dawned Gibraltar  grand and gray;           4
"Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?"--say,
Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God and pray,
While Jove's planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.

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