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All Europe had its eye fixed on the
operations of Spinola. It is therefore, with great propriety of
language, that Grotius makes Ostend thus address herself to the world,
in the following lines:--
"Area parva ducum, totus quam respicit orbis;
Celsior una malis, et quam damnare ruinae
Nunc quoque fata timent,--alieno in litore resto.
Tertius annus abit; toties mutavimus hostem:
Saevit hyems pelago, morbisque furentibus aestas;
Et minimum est quod fecit Iber,--crudelior armis
In nos orta lues,--nullum est sine funere funus.
Nec perimit mors una semel:--Fortuna quid haeres?
Qua mercede tenes mixtos in sanguine manes?
Quis tumulos moriens hos occupet hoste perempto?
Queritur,--et sterili tantum de pulvere pugna est."

"A small area of chiefs, whom the whole world contemplates;
alone loftier than my woes; I, whom the
Fates even yet, fear to condemn to ruin;--remain on a
foreign shore.


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