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POEMS FOR THE SEA.
It seems as though a diamond shield
Was o'er my bosom thrown,
The eherish'd forms of wife and child
Are sunbeams, though the storm is wild.
And when I pace the deck,
My midnight watch to keep,
I ask the never slumbering Eye
To guard their quiet sleep ;
For them I toil, for them I save,
And gladly dare the mountain wave.
Thoughts of my humble home
My hardest labours cheer,
And if it were a palace proud
It would not be as dear,
For now its little window seems
The light-house of my brightest dreams.
