Song fromAlbion and Marina

I think of thee when the moonbeams play

On the placid water's face;

For thus thy blue eyes' lustrous ray

Shone with resembling grace.

I think of thee when the snowy swan

Glides calmly down the stream;

Its plumes the breezes scarcely fan,

Awed by their radiant gleam.

For thus I've seen the loud winds hush

To pass thy beauty by,

With soft caress and playful rush

'Mid thy bright tresses fly.

And I have seen the wild birds sail

In rings thy head above,

While thou hast stood like lily pale

Unknowing of their love.

Oh! For the day when once again

Mine eyes will gaze on thee;

But an ocean vast, a sounding main,

And ever howling sea,

Roll on between

With their billows green,

High tost tempestuously.