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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, John (d)

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​SMITH. (Lieut., 1802. f.p., 16; h-p., 39.)
John Smith (d) died about the commencement of 1848.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 June, 1792, as Servant, on board the Echo 16, Capts. Hon. Chas. Jones and Peter Halkett, employed at Newfoundland and in the Channel. In April, 1794, he rejoined Capt. Jones, as Midshipman, in the Sibyl 28, attached to the force in the North Sea, where he removed, in July, 1795, to the Garland frigate, Capt. John Erskine Douglas. He served next, from Oct. 1795 until Jan. 1801, in the Doris 36, Capts. Lord Viscount Ranelagh and John Halliday, on the coast of Ireland and in the Channel; he was then transferred, as a Supernumerary, to the Thames 32; and after he had been a second time employed, for three months as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Doris under Capt. Chas. Brisbane, he was received, in Dec. 1801, on board the Saturn 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Totty in the West Indies; where he was again, in Jan, and May, 1802, ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Fairy sloop and Aimable frigate, Capts. John Impey and Henry Raper. He was confirmed 10 July, 1802; returned to England in the following Sept.; and was afterwards, from April, 1803, until Oct. 1807, and from Oct. 1808 until April, 1810, employed, in the East Indies and North Sea and Baltic, in the Grampus (50, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Wm. Warden, and Jas. Haldane Tait, and Princess Caroline 74, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater. He did not afterwards go afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, John Wynter

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​SMITH. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 16; h-p., 31.)
John Wynter Smith died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Havick, Capt. Bartholomew; in which vessel and in the Diamond 38, Capt. Edw. Griffith, he served in the Channel until April, 1802. He next, in March, 1805, joined the Texel 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon at Leith; and in June, 1806, and Nov. 1808, he was received as Midshipman on board the Shannon 38, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Lord Gambier, both on the Home station; where he acted from July, 1809, until Feb. 1810, as Lieutenant, in the Goldfinch and Devastation sloops, Capts. Fitzherbert Geo. Skinner and John Taylor. On 12 July in the latter year, at which period he was serving in the Mediterranean, again as Midshipman, in the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Rich. Thomas, he was made Lieutenant into the Téméraire 98, Capt. Chamberlayne. He was subsequently employed off Cadiz, until April, 1811, in the Hound, Capt. John Williams; and from Feb. 1812 until Feb. 1813, a second time in the Mediterranean, in the Nemesis 28, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. From 14 Oct. 1836 until 1843 he had charge of a station in the Coast Guard. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, Marmaduke

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​SMITH. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Marmaduke Smith entered the Navy, in June, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Phoebe of 44 guns, Capt. Robt. Barlow, with whom he continued employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Triumph 74, on the Irish and Mediterranean stations until transferred, in Dec. 1804, to the Dryad 36, Capt. Adam Drummond. In the Phoebe he assisted at the capture, 19 Feb. 1801, of the Africaine of 44 guns and 715 men, including troops and artificers – a frigate whose resistance was protracted until, in the course of a desperate night-action of two hours, she had sustained (although the Phoebe, out of 239 men, had but 1 killed and 12 wounded) the terrific loss of at least 200 killed and 143 wounded – the greater part of them mortally. For his gallantry in achieving this exploit Capt. Barlow was rewarded with the honour of Knighthood. In the Dryad Mr. Smith was again stationed on the coast of Ireland, where he distinguished himself so much in boarding a French letter-of-marque that he received an order to act as Lieutenant, and was eventually, 27 Dec. 1808, confirmed in that rank. His next and last appointments were – 31 March, 1809, to the Nemesis 28, Capt. Wm. Ferris, employed for two years in the Baltic and North Sea and on the coast of Africa – and 10 April, 1812, and 27 Oct. 1813, to the Porcupine 24 and Surveillante 38, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Elliot, with whom he served on the coasts of Brazil, France, and Spain until May, 1814. While attached to the Nemesis he commanded the barge in conjunction with the other boats of that ship, and those of the Belvidera 36, at the spirited capture, on the coast of Norway, of two Danish gun-vessels, the Bolder and Thor (carrying 2 long 24’s, 6 6-pounder howitzers, and 45 men), and the destruction of a third, 23 July, 1810. On another occasion, having taken a Danish privateer of 6 guns, he was sent in her with 25 men to attack a small convoy protected by several gun-boats, in face of whom he succeeded in making prize of a large merchant-vessel laden with copper. During the sojourn of the Nemesis on the coast of Africa, Mr. Smith, in the early part of 1811, was wounded at the cutting out by three of her boats of a 10-gun schooner from under the fire of the Dutch fort of St. Jago d’Elmina, on the coast of Guinea. In the Surveillante he was First-Lieutenant. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, Richard Sidney

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​SMITH. (Commander, 1846.)
Richard Sidney Smith entered the Navy 19 March, 1827; passed his examination 3 April, 1833; and while serving on the North America and West ​India station as Mate in the Crocodile 26, Capt. Alex. Milne, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841. In Feb. 1842 he was appointed Additional of the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis in South America, where he removed, 15 June following, to the Fantome 16, Capt. Philip Geo. Haymes, and was further, from 1 Aug. 1843 until advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846, employed in the Gorgon steam-ship, Capts. Sir Chas. Hotham and Edw. Crouch. In 1845 he took part in all the services performed under Sir C. Hotham in the river Parana, where he commanded the boats at the cutting-out of a schooner under a heavy fire from the enemy, and was the latter part of the time First-Lieutenant. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cornish, John (b)

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​CORNISH. (Lieutenant, 1830.)
John Cornish (b) died 3 Oct. 1845. This officer entered the Navy 19 Jan. 1810; passed his examination in 1816; obtained his commission 22 July, 1830; was appointed to the Coast Guard 27 May, 1831; and, from the summer of 1832 until the period of his death was on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cornwall, John

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​CORNWALL. (Commander, 1826. f-p., 10; h-p., 28.)
John Cornwall, born 22 Jun. 1795, is eldest son of the late John Cornwall, Esq., of Hendon, co. Middlesex; maternal grandson of Admiral the first ​Lord Gardner; and first-cousin of Lieut. Alan Henry Gardner, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 April, 1809, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, and in the course of the same year attended the expedition to the Walcheren. In Dec. he became Midshipman of the Thames 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave; and, continuing to serve with that officer, in the same ship and the Volontaire 38, until his promotion, 13 April, 1815, witnessed a variety of active operations in the Mediterranean. In the boats of the former ship he aided at the capture and destruction of a large and well-protected convoy near Amanthea 25 July, 1810, and was wounded while contributing to the demolition of 10 large armed feluccas on the beach close to Cetraro, in the Gulf of Policastro, 16 June, 1811: in those of the Volontaire he assisted in wrenching from the enemy a national schooner of 4 guns, and 20 merchantmen, near the town of St. Mary’s, 29 April, 1812, and was twice employed, 30 March and 2 May, 1813, in taking convoys and destroying the batteries at Morjean, between Toulon and Marseilles, besides participating in one or two other affairs of minor note. Mr. Cornwall next served from 13 April, 1813, until Aug. 1819, with Capt. Wm. Bowles in the Amphion and Creole frigates, stationed for the protection of trade in South America; and was lastly appointed, 6 April, 1826, to the Gloucester 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, in which ship we find him conveying the Duke of Devonshire to St. Petersburg, on the occasion of his Grace’s embassy to that court. Being senior officer at Cronstadt at the time of the conflagration which shortly afterwards broke out in the arsenal at that place, Mr. Cornwall so materially assisted in subduing its ravages that the Emperor in acknowledgment presented him with an elegant ring. His promotion to the rank of Commander bears date 22 Nov. 1826.
Commander Cornwall married, 5 Dec. 1822, Charlotte Susan, sister of the present Sir John Kenward Shaw, Bart., and of the late Capt. Chas. Shaw, R.N., by whom he has issue three sons and two daughters. Agents – Hallett and Robjnson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corbyn, Joseph

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​CORBYN. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 23; h-p., 38.)
Joseph Corbyn entered the Navy, 19 March, 1786, as Captain’s Servant, on borad the Winchelsea, Capt. Edw. Pellew, on the Newfoundland station, where, and in the West Indies, he served until June, 1790 – the last three years in the Maidstone, Capt. Henry Newcome. In July, 1793, he joined, as Midshipman, the Scorpion, Capt. Thos. Western. He served afterwards for nearly three years in the Argo, Sampson, and Victorious, all commanded by Capt. Wm. Clark, under whom he witnessed the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Sept. 1795; became, 21 June, 1796, Acting-Lieutenant of the Hobart sloop, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page; and, until confirmed by the Admiralty, 23 Jan. 1802, continued to serve in the same capacity on board his old ship the Victorious, Capt. Clark, and La Sybille of 48 guns, Capt. Chas. Adam. During his attachment to the last-mentioned frigate, Mr. Corbyn distinguished himself in command of her boats at the blockade of Batavia in 1800; and assisted at the capture, 19 Aug. 1801, of La Chiffonne of 42 guns, after a gallant action of 20 minutes fought off the Seychelles. He left the Sybille in May, 1803, and did not again go afloat until 5 Sept. 1805, when he rejoined Capt. Adam in the Resistance 38, of which ship he commanded the boats at the capture of a 4-gun battery, and destruction of a French armed schooner and chasse-marée in the port of Anchové, near Cape Machicaco, 8 March, 1809. Mr. Corbyn – who in Sept. 1810, accompanied the same Captain, as his First-Lieutenant, into the Invincible 74 – served next at the siege of Tarragona in May, 1811. He co-operated also with the Baron d’Eroles (by whom the assistance he aflbrded was spoken of in the highest terms) in a successful attack made in April, 1813, on the enemy’s posts at Ampolla and Perello; and acquired great praise for his indefatigable and efffective exertions, as commandant of a battery, during the arduous operations which preceded the capture of the fort of Col de Balaguer in June following. He was consequently rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated 15 June, 1814; and was subsequently appointed – 18 April, 1837, to the Packet Service at Pembroke – and 8 May, 1839, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth. Since 27 Aug. 1840, this officer has held an appointment in Greenwich Hospital.
He is married, and has issue.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 500.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, pp. 1306, 1361, 1406.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cordry, George

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​CORDRY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
George Cordry entered the Navy, 6 March, 1803, as A.B., on board the Monkey gun-brig, in which, under various officers, he served, latterly as Midshipman, on the Home station, until Aug. 1805. He then joined the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Robt. Redmill, and, on 21 Oct. following, was present at the battle of Trafalgar. Being unfortunately taken prisoner, however, towards the close of the latter year, he remained in captivity for the long space of eight years and five months. On his ultimate release, he became attached, in July, 1814, to the Escort gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Vandeput Crosbe, on the Halifax station; and afterwards, as Master’s Mate, to the Iris 36, flag-ship at Deptford of Sir Home Popham. He was awarded a commission 11 March, 1815; but was placed on half-pay 15 Oct. following, and has not since been afloat. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corbett, John

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​CORBETT. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
John Corbett served in the Carysfort 26, Capt. Henry Byam Martin, throughout the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, Including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre; and was present at the blockade of Alexandria. He passed his examination 1 June, 1842; was appointed, in 1843, to the Queen 110, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, to whom he afterwards, in the Formidable 84, officiated as Signal Mate; and while serving as Senior of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, was promoted to the rank he now holds 4 May, 1846. He is still employed in the Excellent.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corbyn, Major

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​CORBYN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
Major Corbyn entered the Navy, 1 June, 1806, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Resistance 38, Capt. Chas. Adam, of which ship he became a Midshipman in 1808. On subsequently removing with Capt. Adam to the Invincible 74, he assisted at the defence of Tarragona in May, 1811, and otherwise actively co-operated with the patriots on the coast of Spain. From Aug. 1813, until Dec. 1815, Mr. Corbyn afterwards served on the Canadian lakes, as Master’s Mate, under Capt. Stephen Popham and Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, on board the Aeolus, Prince Regent, Princess Charlotte, and Niagara. Having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 18 March in the latter year, he then roiunied home. He has been in command, since 31 Oct. 1846, of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corbett, Nathaniel Gordon

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​CORBETT. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 13; h-p., 29.)
Nathaniel Gordon Corbett, born 16 Nov. 1790, is second son of the late Jas. Corbett Porterfield, Esq., of Porterfield.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fame 74, Capts. Graham Moore and Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett; under the latter of whom, after serving on the Home and West India stations, he assisted at the defence of Rosas, a citadel at the north-eastern extremity of Spain, in Nov. 1808. From Aug. 1809, until March, 1810, he next served in the Mediterranean on board the Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, Bulwark 74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, and Excellent 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith; and then joined, as Midshipman, the Nymphen 36, Capts. Keith Maxwell and John Hancock, in command of a prize belonging to which frigate he was taken prisoner by the Russians in Sept. 1810, and handed over to the Danes, by whom he was subjected, for eight months, to a very trying captivity in Lapland. Having been confirmed, 12 July, 1813, to a Lieutenancy in the Atalante 18, Capt. Fred. Hickey, the subject of this sketch next accompanied an expedition to the Chesapeake under Sir John Borlase Warren, was at the attack on Craney Island, and suffered a perilous shipwreck on the Sisters Rocks, off Halifax lighthouse, 10 Nov. in the same year. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – 15 Aug. 1814, and 1 Oct. 1818, as First-Lieutenant, to the Prospero 10, and Raleigh 18, Capts. Geo. Greensill and Wm. Aug. Baumgardt, on the Newfoundland and West India stations – and, 12 Nov. 1819, to the Dover 28, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, ​guard-ship at Leith. Lieut. Corbett has not been employed since 1821.
He married, 28 Sept. 1832, Margaret, daughter of Patrick Borthwick, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corneck, Henry Asser

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​CORNECK. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
Henry Asser Corneck was horn, 29 Oct. 1791, in Devonshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Marlborough 74, Capts. Graham Moore and John Phillimore; and, in Nov. following, sailed for the Brazils in escort of the Royal Family of Portugal. Having attained the rating of Midshipman in Nov. 1808, and taken part in all the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition in 1809, Mr. Comeck next, in April, 1811, joined the Laurel 38, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, under whom he suffered shipwreck, on the Govivas Rock, in the Teigneuse Passage, 31 Jan. 1812. He then rejoined Capt. Moore in the Chatham 74; and was afterwards on his passage to India in the Java of 46 guns and 377 men, when that frigate fell a victim, at the close of a deadly action of three hours and forty minutes, in which 22 of her men were killed, and 102, including her Captain, Henry Lambert, wounded, to the American ship Constitution, of 55 guns and 480 men, 29 Dec. following. Mr. Corneck – who on that occasion was slightly wounded, and for his steady and officer-like conduct promoted to the rating of Master’s Mate – passed his examination 3 Sept. 1813. He subsequently, until promoted 26 Dec. 1822, served, in that capacity, on the West India, Home, Halifax, and Mediterranean stations, on board the Benbow 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, Leonidas 38, Capt. Wm. King, Newcastle 60, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, Bellette 18, Capt. John Popham Baker, Mersey 26, Capt. Edw. Collier, Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, and Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of his old Captain, Sir Graham Moore. Having been promoted, as above, Mr. Corneck was placed on half-pay 2 April, 1823, since which period he has not been employed.
He married, 11 Nov. 1821, the youngest daughter of Jas. Brazier La Grange, Esq. (an American loyalist, who held a clerkship for upwards of 30 years in the late Marquess of Camden’s office in the Exchequer, and acted for two years as Deputy-Teller to that nobleman), and grand-daughter of the Rev. Wm. Warrington, 35 years vicar of Old Windsor, co. Berks. He has issue an only son, Henry Warrington, a Midshipman, R.N., who entered the service 29 Oct. 1841.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cornish, John (a)

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​CORNISH. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
John Cornish (a) entered the Navy 3 Dec. 1807; passed his examination in 1815; obtained his commission 28 April, 1827; and, since 4 Oct. 1834, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/My Utopia (Amédée Pommier)

MY UTOPIA.
A. M. CUVILLIER-FLEURY.
AMÉDÉE POMMIER.
A poem to be gathered in a book Of golden song, to occupy its nook In a collection not unworthily, An ode, a sonnet, or an elegy— This was and is my day-dream. Oh for power To generate a marvel, like a flower Delicate; polished, damascened with gold And rich enamelled, like a sword-hilt old! No monument ambitious would I raise, Pyramid or palace that would fix the gaze, Or pompous column towering to the skies, But a mere atom, nothing in its size, Yet a creation, wonderful; sublime By its perfection; a short magic rhyme; A work of patience, humble, seeming slight, Formed slowly, like the brilliant stalactite, Worth a great poem in its tenuity, And born to last through all eternity. Oh to show forth What constancy of heart And study may achieve in noble art! Oh to create with love and anxious care, And leave the world, the poet's only heir, A brave medallion like a relic rare
Which would be better loved and understood As years glide silent by the multitude, And which would in the course of time command The homage due unto the master-hand.
Greek lapidaries of an age long past, Who wrought works delicate for aye to last, Whose skilful fingers on the agate cut Venus and Hebe, and where rocks abut Over the waters, Sappho with her lyre, Sculptors minute, whose wonders never tire, Artists in truth, and nature's worshippers, Who jousted like to brave knight-jewellers To win the honours of the highest place For bold conception, delicacy, grace! Ah, that I also had the tool and hand Which graves a profile from the heavenly land, Or a fair figure, such as sometimes gleams Athwart a poet's or a virgin's dreams! I would have made an ornamental seal Big as a thumb-nail, with a madman's zeal And unremitting labour, all alone, Upon a bit of ivory or stone. I would have staked mine art, my chance of fame, In richly working out my thought and aim, And left behind an everlasting gem, Large as a peach-stone, worth a diadem! We die now from redundance and excess, Elixirs and perfumes are spiritless Unless condensed; diffuse thoughts need a press. I should collect the tear, though hard my part, That filters from a suffering broken heart, Then like a fly in amber it should shine, Placed in its frame, as in a sacred shrine,
Or sepulchre transparent. As the fly Looks in its case a jewel from the sky, So should the dew-drop like a star shed calm When in my verse the treasure I embalm.
But great good fortune comes not every day; Horace and Petrarch each in his own way Were favoured oft. Ah, e'en in petty things The perfect and the absolute are for kings Of thought,—not open here below To all, but only those on whom bestow The Muses, gifts. This ideal model small That in our spirits floats scarce seen at all, This grain of dust, this sun-kissed glittering mote, Of art, this intangible asymptote, Is hard to seize and hard to realise, Though our hearts break in trying—off it flies! We weep not all, alas! the tears sublime That crystallise and change to pearls by time.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/My Village (Justin Gensoul)

This poem bears the initials of Toru Dutt's sister, Aru.
MY VILLAGE.
GENSOUL.
O fair sky of my native land, How much I miss thee here! And thee, O home—O sweet retreat! I ever held so dear. Canst thou not, Sun, that openest now The summer's treasures free, Give back to me my sky and home, My life and gaiety?
Too common is the error sad My reason that betrayed, I dreamt of fortune and a name, And from my country strayed; By sad experience wiser grown, With softer heart to-day, My own dear village now I seek, And my first friend, far away.
What calls me to that happy spot? Why should I thither fare? My mother slumbers there in peace, And friendship waits me there. O pleasant thoughts! like mighty charms, My sadness lull to rest, Dry up the tears that rise unbid, And calm my heaving breast.
As an exotic fragile bud, In some sad foreign coast, Bends mourning on its feeble stalk Beneath a heavy frost, Thus in my youth,—alas! I bow, As feeble as the flower; But knowing in the grave is peace, I welcome yet the hour.
An exile from my earliest prime, Benumbed and chilled with cold, I long to warm myself again, Beside the hearth of old. Arise each day—my native land, In memory's longing eye! In thee began my course of life, In thee I wish to die.
A.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Nice (Louise-Victorine Ackermann)

NICE.
MADAME ACKERMANN.
At the foot of the hills see my garden in shelter, My fig-trees, my home, The valley ever green, and the sea-waves that welter, Blue, silvered with foam.
Ah! When first I arrived in this valley enchanted, The day I recall: It was after a shipwreck, life barely was granted, But I had lost all.
And now, since that season of despondence and sorrow, Spring often has run, Across meadows that love his wreaths radiant to borrow, And laugh in the sun.
If no blooms are for me, in a present that's dreary And future of ill, At least, oh! my poor heart, of thy tears thou art weary, And hast learned to be still.
'Mid scents of the orange, where all smiles,I may languish, And sometimes may sigh, But I can dream of times loved, and now see without anguish, The days dawn and die.