MINOR POEMS. PART II. VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ. I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, The beasts that roam over the plain, Society, friendship, and love, Religion! what treasure untold Or smiled when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Of a land I shall visit no more. How fleet is a glance of the mind! But the seafowl is gone to her nest, |