Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 34 1833/Far o'er the Sea
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 34, Pages 859-860
V.
FAR O'ER THE SEA.
Where are the vintage-songs
Wandering in glee?
Where dance the peasants-bands
Joyous and free?
Under a kind blue sky,
Where doth my birth-place lie?
—Far o'er the sea!
Where floats the myrtle-scent
O'er vale and lea,
When evening calls the dove
Homewards to flee?
Where doth the orange gleam
Soft on my native stream?
—Far o'er the sea!
Where; are sweet eyes of Love
Watching for me?
Where, o'er the cabin roof,
Waves the green tree?
Where speaks the vesper-chime
Still of a holy time?
—Far o'er the sea!
Dance on, ye vintage-bands,
Fearless and free!
Still fresh and greenly wave,
My father's tree!
Still smile, ye kind blue skies!
Though your son pines and dies
Far o'er the sea!