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THE BANISHED MAN,
ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICH HE IS QUITTING FOR EVER.
1 DEAR distant land, whose mountains blue
2 Still bound this wild and watery view, —
3 Dear distant land, where fate has thrown
4 All that my heart delights to own!
5 Blest be yon gleam of partial light,
6 Which gives thee to my parting sight!
7 Those well-known cliffs, whose shadows throw
8 Soft coolness o'er the beech below,
9 Where I so oft, a happy child,
10 Picking or shell or weed, beguiled
11 Light reckless hours, that passed away,
12 Like night-sparks on the briny spray, —
[Page 132]13 Dear pleasant shore, thy sandy bed,
14 These feet unblessed no more shall tread!
15 Still thy rich vales with autumn's store,
16 And cheerful hamlets mottled o'er;
17 Thy up-land peaks whose stately forms
18 Are mantled oft in gathering storms;
19 Thy blue streams widening on their way,
20 Thy broad lakes gleaming to the day;
21 Thy smoking towns, whose towers of war
22 And dusky spires are seen afar,
23 Thy children's boastful pride will raise,
24 And fix the admiring stranger's gaze, —
25 But now, for ever lost to me,
26 These eyes unblest no more shall see.
27 Thy wild pipe, touched with rustic hands,
28 Thy reapers' song from merry bands;
29 Thy boatman's call and dashing oar,
30 Thy falling torrent's deaf'ning roar;
31 Thy busy city's humming sound,
32 With all its sweet bells chiming round,
[Page 133]33 Far, on a strange and cheerless shore,
34 These ears unblest shall hear no more.
35 Happy is he, beyond all gain,
36 Who holds in thee his free domain,
37 And roves with careless feet at will
38 O'er his paternal mead and hill,
39 And stores the fruit his harvests yield
40 From his own orchard and his field!
41 Happy is he who leads at dawn
42 His harnessed steers across thy lawn!
43 Yea, happy he, bent down with toil,
44 Whose glistening brow bedews thy soil!
45 How gently heaves the evening sea,
46 As all things homeward tend to thee!
47 Borne lightly on the gentle gale,
48 Now homeward points each little sail!
49 Far, screaming from their airy height,
50 The sea-fowl homeward take their flight;
51 The floating plank and spreading weed,
52 Upon the setting current speed;
[Page 134]53 The light cloud passes on the wind,
54 While I alone am left behind.
55 Ah, woe is me! where shall I stray,
56 And whither bend my reckless way?
57 A waste of world before me lies,
58 But in the thought my spirit dies.
59 There is no home nor joy for me,
60 My native land, removed from thee.
61 For me the sun of heaven doth shine
62 Upon no hills, no plains but thine;
63 For me the voice of kindness sounds
64 Only within thy cheerful bounds.
65 Rise, surgy deep, ye wild winds blow
66 And whelm my bark these waves below!
67 Then bear me to my native land:
68 A breathless corse upon her strand,
69 Some hand, in pity of the dead,
70 Will lay her greensward on my head,
71 And there for ever let me rest,
72 As sleeps the froward child, stilled on his mother's breast.
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Title (in Source Edition): THE BANISHED MAN, ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICH HE IS QUITTING FOR EVER.
Author: Joanna Baillie
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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL., 1840, pp. 131-134. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [40.17].)
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