ETERNAL SPIRIT of the chain
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, t
For there thy habitation is the he
The heart which love of Thee alon
And when thy sons to fetters are c

There is a pleasure in the pathles
There is a rapture on the lonely s
There is society, where none intru
By the deep sea, and music in its
I love not man the less, but Natu

Weep, daughter of a royal line,
A Sire’s disgrace, a realm’s deca
Ah! happy if each tear of thine
Could wash a father’s fault away!
Weep—for thy tears are Virtue’s t

When Friendship or Love
Our sympathies move;
When Truth, in a glance, should a
The lips may beguile,
With a dimple or smile,

Woman! experience might have told
That all must love thee who behold
Surely experience might have taugh
Thy firmest promises are nought:
But, placed in all thy charms befo

Adieu, adieu! my native shore
Fades o’ver the waters blue;
The night-winds sigh, the breakers
And shrieks the wild sea-mew.
Yon sun that sets upon the sea

There be none of Beauty’s daughte
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing

THE isles of Greece! the isles o
Where burning Sappho loved and su
Where grew the arts of war and pea
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus spr
Eternal summer gilds them yet,

Bright be the place of thy soul!
No lovelier spirit than thine
E’er burst from its mortal control
In the orbs of the blessed to shin
On earth thou wert all but divine,

When I roved a young Highlander o
And climb’d thy steep sumrnit, oh
To gaze on the torrent that thunde
Or the mist of the tempest that ga
Untutor’d by science, a stranger t