Browning's Shorter Poems

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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