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Thomas Campbell (1777 – 1844)


Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (1826–1829).
Thomas Campbell
Ye mariners of England,
That guard our native seas;
Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze!
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O Love! in such a wilderness as this.
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Absence! is not the soul torn by it
   From more than light, or life, or breath?
'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,—
   The pain without the peace of death!




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Oh leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
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There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
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While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.
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There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
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Oh! once the harp of Innisfail
Was strung full high to notes of gladness;
But yet it often told a tale
Of more prevailing sadness.
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O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
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"Come back! come back!" he cried in grief
"Across this stormy water;
And I'll forgive your Highland chief,
My daughter! O my daughter!"




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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell
While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.
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But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
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On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.
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Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?
Thomas Campbell
Oh, how hard it is to find
The one just suited to our mind!
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The meteor flag of England
Shall yet terrific burn,
Till danger's troubled night depart,
And the star of peace return.
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O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!
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The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd—till woman smiled.


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