The poetical remains of William Sidney Walker ... Edited with a memoir of the author by the Rev. J. Moultrie |
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SONNET ON LEAVING TEIGNMOUTH. |
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SONNET ON LEAVING TEIGNMOUTH.
Fair fields, rich hedgerows; the eternal sea,And its great bounds; broad hills of green increase;
White hamlets lone; and, nestling among these,
A happy bower, where true-born courtesy
Clasps with its graceful wreath the goodly tree
Of Home Affection;—thro' such scenes of peace,
Borne by his wayward fortune's hurrying breeze,
A stranger past; and when the potency
Of that all-mastering blast still swept him on,
As voyager, harbour'd on some unknown strand,
On mossy trunk or rude memorial stone
Inscribes his homely record, in like guise
Wove he these uncouth rhymes, to memorize
The welcome which he met in that fair land.
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