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DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA.

1 Yes! from mine eyes the tears unbidden start,
2 As thee, my country, and the long-lost sight
3 Of thy own cliffs, that lift their summits white
4 Above the wave, once more my beating heart
5 With eager hope and filial transport hails!
6 Scenes of my youth, reviving gales ye bring,
7 As when erewhile the tuneful morn of spring
8 Joyous awoke amidst your hawthorn vales,
9 And filled with fragrance every village lane:
10 Fled are those hours, and all the joys they gave!
11 Yet still I gaze, and count each rising wave
12 That bears me nearer to my home again;
13 If haply, 'mid those woods and vales so fair,
14 Stranger to Peace, I yet may meet her there.

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Title (in Source Edition): DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA.
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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, p. 16.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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