Or dost thou dread the billows' rage,
Or tremble at the gale?
But dash the tear-drop from thine eye;
Our ship is swift and strong:
Our fleetest falcon scarce can fly[1]
More merrily along."[2]
4.
"Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high,[3]
I fear not wave nor wind:
Yet marvel not, Sir Childe, that I
Am sorrowful in mind;[4]
For I have from my father gone,
A mother whom I love,
And have no friend, save these alone,
But thee—and One above.
- ↑
Our best gos-hawk can hardly fly
So merrily along.—[MS.]
Our best greyhound can hardly fly.—[D. erased.] - ↑ Here follows in the MS. the following erased stanza:—
My mother is a high-born dame,
And much misliketh me;
She saith my riot bringeth shame
On all my ancestry.
I had a sister once I ween,
Whose tears perhaps will flow;
But her fair face I have not seen
For three long years and moe. - ↑
Oh master dear I do not cry
From fear of wave or wind.—[MS.] - ↑ [Robert was sent back from Gibraltar under the care of Joe Murray (see letter to Mr. Rushton, August 15, 1809: Letters, 1898, i. 242).]
myself, he seems a friendless animal. Tell Mr. Rushton his son is well, and doing well" (letter to Mrs. Byron, Falmouth, June 22, 1809: Letters, 1898, i. 224).]