Queen Mary's lamentation (1823)/The sailor's return

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THE SAILOR'S RETURN.

BEHOLD from many a hostile shore,
And all the dangers of the main,
Where billows mount, aud tempests roar,
Your faithful Tom retnrns again;
Returns, and with him brings a heart
That ne'er from Sally shall depart.

After long toils and troubles past,
How sweet to trade our native soil,
With conquest to return at last?
And deck our sweethearts with the spoil!
No one to beauty should pretend,
But such as dare its right defend.

FINIS.