The Sailor’s Song
David Macbeth
Moir
Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta,
∆)
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Included in a series of poems published in sequence written under the same pseudonym Δ
(680-82). (KF2)
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
6
36
680
With steady ray the cold moonshine
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The Sailor’s Song
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With steady ray the cold moonshine
Is slumbering on the shoreless brine ;
The pendant, curling in the breeze,
Sweeps onward thro’ the foamy seas.—
Where’er I roam,
Beloved girl ! my wandering mind
Reverts an eye to times behind,
And thee at home !
When brooding tempests gather o’er
The heaving sea, without a shore ;
As night descends upon the deep,
And howl the giant winds, and sweep
With awful power—
I think how happy I could be,
At home, or—anywhere with thee,
At any hour !
When storms are soften’d to repose,
And Ocean’s breast no ripple knows ;
When, weeping o’er expiring day,
Shines in the south, with holy ray,
The Evening-star ;
With ecstasy I gaze, and turn
To long-departed days, and burn
For thee afar !
Blow strong, blow steady, welcome breeze !
And bear us thro’ the weary seas ;
Until before our wistful eyes
The azure hills of Albyn rise—
My native grove,
In all its summer-pride I see,
The elm-o’ershaded cot, and thee,
My life !—my love ! !
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