| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | I. The Departure | | By Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
| | | AGAIN 1 thy winds are pealing in mine ear! | |
| Again thy waves are flashing in my sight! | |
| Thy memory-haunting tones again I hear, | |
| As through the waves our vessel wings her flight! | |
| On thy cerulean breast, now swelling high, | 5 |
| Again, thou broad Atlantic, am I cast! | |
| Six years, with gathering speed, have glided by, | |
| Since, an adventurous boy, I hailed thee last; | |
| The sea-birds o’er me wheel, as if to greet | |
| An old companion; on my naked brow | 10 |
| The sparkling foam-drops not unkindly beat; | |
| Flows through my hair the freshening breeze; and now | |
| The horizon’s ring enclasps me; and I stand | |
| Gazing where fades from view, cloud-like, my fatherland! | |
| | | Note 1. From “Shells and Sea-Weeds, or, Records of a Summer Voyage to Cuba,” in his “Songs of the Sea, 1847.” [back] | | |
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