When The Author Was Indulging In The Fancy That She
Should Leave England That Year To Return To
Barbados.
1.
NOW hush’d and tranquil are the cares of day,
And Evening spreads her mantle wide,
Departing Sol withdraws his latest ray,
And sinks majestic in old Ocean’s tide.
2.
Keen memory now awakes the throb of pain,
And bliss departed dwells upon my mind,
I see around the broad expansive main,
And waft a sigh upon the passing wind.
3.
Bear me, oh! winds, to that delightful clime,
Where smoothly passed the morning of my days,
Pleasures now buried in the course of time;
Tho’ hope elate still warms me with her rays.
4.
Majestic, moving in the troubled waves,
The distant sails soft tremble in the air;
The anchor’s weighed! the ship Britannia leaves,
And joyous feelings mingle with the tear.
5.
Now, pensive on the deck I sit and weep,
And hear the billows dashing on the strand,
Around me rolls th’ interminable deep,
Now Britain seems a distant speck of land.
6.
Oh! you who call this happy Isle your own,
My present transports you could never feel;
The sweet emotions you have ever known,
Which on my mind with gentle influence steal.
7.
I go to meet a much-loved Parent’s form,
Impell’d by duty and by filial love,
My heart with smiling hope’s sweet raptures warm,
Exults with joy my gratitude to prove.
8.
Propitious breezes fill the swelling sails,
And gently glides the Vessel o’er the main
Gay, fav’ring fortune guides the Eastern gales,
And haughty Gallia sends her ships in vain.
9.
At last the dangers of the voyage o’er,
The distant canes are waving in the breeze,
We joyful gain the happy peaceful shore,
The little Island in the stormy seas.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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