...are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the...caverns sent; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent! Now round us spreads the watery plain— Oh might our marges meet again...

...are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the...longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent. In these lines one of the truest elegiac poets has touched the very heart of the mystery ; for the...

...are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the...caverns sent ; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent ! Now round us spreads the watery plain Oh might our marges meet again...

...are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the...caverns sent ; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent ! Now round us spreads the watery plain Oh might our marges meet again...

...then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent! Now round us spreads...watery plain Oh might our marges meet again ! Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders vain their deep...

...then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent ; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent ! Now round us spreads...the watery plain — Oh might our marges meet again ! YOL. II. C Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd? Who renders...

...are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing, And lovely notes from shore to shore, Across the sounds...caverns sent ; — For surely once they feel we were Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain — Oh might our marges meet again...

...are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing, And lovely notes from shore to shore Across the sounds...Is to their farthest caverns sent; For surely once we feel they were Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain ; Oh, might our...

...then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent! Now round us spreads...watery plain — Oh might our marges meet again! .' Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd? Who renders vain their deep...

...swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; — And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour ; — O ! then a longing like despair Is to their furthest caverns sent, For surely once, they feel...