<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slow spreads the gloom my soul desires--<br>The sun from India's shore retires--<br>To EVAN'S banks with temp'rate ray,<br>Home of my youth! he leads the day.<br>O banks to me for ever dear!<br>O stream, whose murmurs still I hear!<br>All, all my hopes of bliss reside<br>Where EVAN mingles with the CLYDE .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she in simple beauty drest,<br>Whose image lives within my breast,<br>Who trembling heard my parting sigh,<br>And long pursued me with her eye!<br>Does she, with heart unchang'd as mine,<br>Oft in the vocal bowers recline?<br>Or where yon grot o'erhangs the tide,<br>Muse, while the EVAN meets the CLYDE ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye lofty banks that EVAN bound,<br>Ye lavish woods that wave around,<br>And o'er the stream your shadows throw,<br>Which softly winds so far below--<br>What secret charm to mem'ry brings<br>All that on EVAN'S border springs?<br>Sweet banks!--ye bloom by MARY'S side!<br>Blest stream!--she views thee haste to CLYDE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can all the wealth of INDIA'S coast<br>Atone for years in absence lost?<br>Return, ye moments of delight,<br>With richer treasures bless my sight!<br>Swift from this desert let me part,<br>And fly to meet a kindred heart!<br>Nor more may aught my steps divide<br>From that dear stream which flows to CLYDE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Maria+Williams">Helen Maria Williams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407951" data-title="Song de Helen Maria Williams" data-description="I. Slow spreads the gloom my soul desires-- The sun from India's shore retires-- To EVAN'S banks with temp'rate ray, Home of my youth! he leads the day. O banks to me for ever dear! O stream, whose murmurs still I hear! All, all my hopes of bliss..."></div> </div> </div>

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