Written on Board the Medway, in the South Sea.
THOUGH distant in the Southern Sea,
My fancy oft reverts to thee,
Thou venerable pile!
Where erst I spent the happy hours
When Youth exerts his opening powers,
In learning’s grateful toil.
And oft as Ocean in his pride,
Rolls nightly on the billowy tide
And laves the nether sky,
Then, in my hammock slung, I dream
It is the Clyde’s transparent stream
Gliding all softly by.
Yes! memory shall still retain
Thy honoured form, tho’ ne’er again
I hail thy classic walls!
O may thy laurels flourish long
And happy be the youth that throng
Thy academic halls!
There have I joyed to follow thee,
(John Dunmore Lang)
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