Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 34 1833/Far o'er the Sea

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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!