Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-04-04
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From the N. Y. Mirror.
ON LEAVING EJJROPE-pv WIZ,

INES YIN LEA ms EUROPE-BY WILLS
ght flag at yonder tapering mast!
Filing out your field Of azure blue
star and stripe be westward cast.
And point as freedoms eagle flew
ain home oh 1.-THE and quivering spars
mt home my country's flag of stars
2 wind blows fair the vessel feels
he pressure Of the rising breeze;
swlftest Of thousand keels,
She leaps to the careerina seas.
fair, fair cloud of snowy sail,
whose white breast | seem to lie,
~ oft, when blew this eastern gale,
We seen your semblance in the sky
longed, with breaking heart, to flee
such white pniOns DER The sea
|eu, oh land of fame and cid
- turn to watch our foamy track,
u thoughts with which first behed
on clouded line, come hurrying back;
lips are dry with vague dcsire,-
Ny cheek once more is hot with Joy
pulse, my brain, ny soul on fire
fh, what has changed that uaveller-boy
leaves the ship this dying foam,
visions fade behind, his weary heart speeds home
Ell, oh soft and southern shore,
Where dwelt the stars long miss'd in heaven!
1se forms of beauty seen no more,
ct once o Arts rapt vision given
still TIL enamorod sun delays,
Fnd prizes through fount and crumblins fame,
win to his adoring gaze
hose children Of the sky again
diate beauty, such never
hat light ON other earth hath shone,
made this land her home forever;
nd could live for this alone
re not my bmthrieht brighter ir
han such voluptuous slaves can be-
d not the West one glorious star
cw-born and blazing for the free
I'd not to heaven our eagle yet
pc, with her Hclot sons, sho'd teach me 10 forget!
Gu, oh father-land see
our white ills on the horizon in,
though TO freezer skies flee,
~ heart swells, and my eyes are DIN!
Knows the dove the task you give her,
hen loosed upon a foreign shore
preads the rain-drop in the river,
which it may have flowed before
Rngland, over vale aud mountain,
y fancy few from cline more fur
blood, that knew its parent fountain,
an warm and fast in England's air.
mother in thy prayer Tonight
here come new words and warmer tears
ong, long darkness breaks the light
,mes home the loved, the lost for years
p safe, oh wavtworn mariner
ear not, tonight or storm or sea
ear Of heaven bends low TO her!
comes to shore who sails with me
wind-tost spider needs no token
W stands the tree when Iightnings blaze
" thread from heaven unbroken,
q low my mother lives and prays.
mother! when our lips can speak
u, u flrst Oui viii lot u ese-
n can gaze upon the check,
Id thou, with thy dear eyes, on me-
Il a pastime little sad
IL ace what weight Times heavy fingers
e, oh other s forms have had
n ID may flee, 50 feeling fingers
hei es a change, beloved mother.
, st II far deeper thoughts of thine
ne bu, with mo comes another,
slt are the heart once only mine
!, on whose thoughts, when sad and lonely,
ne STIR arose in memorys heaven
!, vs. 10 hast watch'd one treasure oniy-
ateS d one flower with tears at even
m in thy heart The hearth she left
darf end, to lend light to ours
e ar, bright flowers of care bereft,
nd he arts that languish more than flowers
was their light-their very air
N, mo- her, in thy heart place for her in thy
prayer