Author and source of the following,please:
"A bark from India's coral strand
   Before the raging blast
 Had vailed her topsails to the sand
   And bowed her noble mast"

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 09 Jan 2004 12:04 PST

It would be helpful to know where (and approximately when) you
encountered this verse. Any details you can offer might provide a clue
to the poem's origins.

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Clarification of Question by happles-ga on 11 Jan 2004 04:42 PST

Sorry, can't clarify, except to say that I don't think its a hymn as
implied by Bowler-ga!

This passage seems similiar:

                     " From Greenland's icy mountains, 
                            From India's coral strand, 
                           Where Afric's soda fountains 
                           Roll down their golden sand."

Source:

THE REVEREND MR. TROTTY. 
             Chapter IV of THE TROTTY BOOK. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
                    Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870 [c1869]

http://www.readseries.com/auth-oz/revtrot.html

Bowler-ga