“The winds are awed, nor dare to breathe aloud;
The air seems never to have borne a cloud,
Save where volcanoes send to heav'n their curl'd
And solemn smokes, like altars of the world.”

— Edward Coote Pinkney

Italy (1825).

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American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor 1802–1828

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