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To Hampstead

Written in Surrey Jail, August 27th, 1813

SWEET upland, to whose walks, with fond repair,

Out of thy western slope I took my rise

Day after day, and on these feverish eyes

Met the moist fingers of the bathing air;—

If health, unearned of thee, I may not share,

Keep it, I pray thee, where my memory lies,

In thy green lanes, brown dells, and breezy skies,

Till I return, and find thee doubly fair.

Wait then my coming on that lightsome land,

Health, and the joy that out of nature springs,

And Freedom’s air-blown locks; but stay with me,

Friendship, frank entering with the cordial hand,

And Honor, and the Muse with growing wings,

And Love Domestic, smiling equably.