POEMS.
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Heard'st thou that sound?—Earth trembles! Meteors glare!
Red glows the Moon, as charmed by Sorcerer's verse!
Ocean rolls back! Fiends wing the lurid air!—
Knew'st Thou that sound?—It was a Father's curse!
Red glows the Moon, as charmed by Sorcerer's verse!
Ocean rolls back! Fiends wing the lurid air!—
Knew'st Thou that sound?—It was a Father's curse!
Yon crazy Bark, so swift which flies the land,
Thence came the word, which Nature hears with fright:
High on the deck see royal Stuart stand,
And fix on Albion's fading rocks his sight.
Thence came the word, which Nature hears with fright:
High on the deck see royal Stuart stand,
And fix on Albion's fading rocks his sight.
From Friends, from home, from all his soul holds dear,
In foreign climes to waste his closing day,
Ambitious Daughters drive this second Lear;—
But no Cordelia wipes his tears away!
In foreign climes to waste his closing day,
Ambitious Daughters drive this second Lear;—
But no Cordelia wipes his tears away!
Gushes the flood fast from the Exile's lids;
Stream his grey locks wild in the winds of night;
And now he rends them in despair, and bids
Heaven's bitterest curse on his proud daughters light!
Stream his grey locks wild in the winds of night;
And now he rends them in despair, and bids
Heaven's bitterest curse on his proud daughters light!
