And another:
MY IRISH HOME.
While o’er the billow’s heaving breast
Our bark does slowly glide,
Each lingering look is backward cast,
Along the curling tide—
And still I hope some happier day
May teach me not to roam,
But bless me with the smiles so gay
That cheered my Irish home.
Yet, Erin dear, thy green-clad hills
Recede too fast from view,
While now each breeze the canvas fills
That bears me far from you—
And, oh! I stand upon the deck,
To hear the rustling foam,
That half conveys my sorrows back
To my dear Irish home.
And now, I watch thy mountains high,
Above the ocean’s brim,
In graceful beauty touch the sky,
Through closing night-shades dim,
Till every vista disappears,
And lost in evening’s gloam,
The twinkling star of night, that cheers
My much loved Irish home.
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