The Exile
Night waneth fast, the morning star
Saddens with light the glimmering sea,
Whose waves shall soon to realms afar
Waft me from hope, from love, and thee.
Coldly the beam from yonder sky
Looks o’er the waves that onward stray;
But colder still the stranger’s eye
To him whose home is far away
Oh, not at hour so chill and bleak,
Let thoughts of me come o’er thy breast;
But of the lost one think and speak,
When summer suns sink calm to rest.
So, as I wander, Fancy’s dream
Shall bring me o’er the sunset seas,
Thy look in every melting beam,
Thy whisper in each dying breeze.