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RALEIGH-SIR FRANCIS DRAKE-JOHN DAVIS, ETC. ETC.

"Man shall descry another hemisphere,

Since to one common centre all things tend,

So earth, by curious mystery divine,

Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres.

At our antipodes are cities, states,

And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore.
But see the sun speeds on his western path,
To glad the nations with expected light."

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