| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. The Ship Setting out | | By Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | STATELY yon vessel sails adown the tide, | |
| To some far distant land adventurous bound; | |
| The sailors’ busy cries from side to side | |
| Pealing among the echoing rocks resound; | |
| A patient, thoughtless, much-enduring band, | 5 |
| Joyful they enter on their ocean way, | |
| With shouts exulting leave their native land, | |
| And know no care beyond the present day. | |
| But is there no poor mourner left behind | |
| Who sorrows for a child or husband there? | 10 |
| Who at the howling of the midnight wind | |
| Will wake, and tremble in her boding prayer? | |
| So may her voice be heard, and Heaven be kind! | |
| Go, gallant Ship, and be thy fortune fair! | | | | |
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