Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/Joy of Pylades on Hearing his Native Language
For other versions of this work, see Joy of Pylades on Hearing his Native Language.
Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 300
FRAGMENTS FROM THE IPHIGENIA.
I.
JOY OF PYLADES ON HEARING HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE.
Oh, sweetest voice! Oh, bless'd familiar sound
Of mother-words heard in the stranger's land!
I see the blue hills of my native shore,
The far blue hills again those cordial tones
Before the captive bid them freshly rise
For ever welcome! Oh, by this deep joy,
Know the true son of Greece!