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TO A FRIEND,ON HIS LEAVING ENGLAND FOR SOUTH AMERICA.
If aught can urge a friend's request
With more prevailing force,
'T is parting thus from east to west,
When meeting must involve at best
Uncertainty, of course.
Yet think not I would damp the zeal
A sailor's breast should ever feel.
With more prevailing force,
'T is parting thus from east to west,
When meeting must involve at best
Uncertainty, of course.
Yet think not I would damp the zeal
A sailor's breast should ever feel.
For British bards have sung that zeal
In music's richest strain,
And British hearts must ever feel
How strongly to their love appeal
Her wanderers of the main;
Then go, and prosperous gales convey
Thy bark upon its destined way!
In music's richest strain,
And British hearts must ever feel
How strongly to their love appeal
Her wanderers of the main;
Then go, and prosperous gales convey
Thy bark upon its destined way!
