Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to West Indies | | Farewell to the Antilles | | Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| | | ONE long last look!—the sunset clouds yon lonely island shade, | |
| And from the high and rolling mast I watch it slowly fade. | |
| Soon like a dream ’t will vanish,—and ah! what dreams have fled! | |
| What feelings born in olden time are numbered with the dead! | |
| What hopes have shed their sunshine that nevermore can be! | 5 |
| Since first that bright and sunny shore rose o’er the tropic sea. | |
| A thousand thoughts are thronging o’er memory’s faded track, | |
| A thousand voices of the Past still seem to call me back, | |
| Still dreams are clinging round me that now ’t were vain to tell— | |
| Farewell, ye green savannas!—ye waving palms, farewell! | 10 |
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| Ye humble hearts and willing hands, that served me long, adieu! | |
| And fare thee well, my bonny steed, so trusty and so true. | |
| Farewell the merry moonlight, that once so sweetly played | |
| On those who roved together ’neath the Faurestina’s shade! | |
| Farewell, each kind familiar face,—each comrade true and tried! | 15 |
| And thou!—once dearer to my heart than all the world beside! | | | | |
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