1.
HOW soft the breeze of night is stealing
Along the smooth wave’s glassy breast,
It seems unto the Soul of feeling,
To breathe from distant worlds of rest.
2.
How sweet the moonbeams are reposing
Upon the silvery tinted tide,
The world of waters round disclosing,
Array’d in Night’s most splendid pride.
3.
The billows from the shore retreating,
Leave on the sands a dewy light;
So, when the joys of Life are fleeting,
They seem to shine more purely bright.
4.
How bright the silver radiance streaming,
Now gilds the Palm Tree’s airy height;
The Cocoa’s trembling boughs are gleaming
With one resplendent blaze of light.
5.
Yon sail with soft and easy motion,
Pursues it’s course to England’s shore;
England, that beauteous gem of Ocean,
Around whose rocks wild waters roar.
6.
Go, gentle gales, so sweetly sighing,
And to you sail propitious prove,
Go, gentle wave, in murmurs dying,
And waft it to the land I love!
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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