CLXXXIV.

   And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy
   Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
   Borne like thy bubbles, onward:  from a boy
   I wantoned with thy breakers—­they to me
   Were a delight; and if the freshening sea
   Made them a terror—­’twas a pleasing fear,
   For I was as it were a child of thee,
   And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane—­as I do here.

CLXXXV.

   My task is done—­my song hath ceased—­my theme
   Has died into an echo; it is fit
   The spell should break of this protracted dream. 
   The torch shall be extinguished which hath lit
   My midnight lamp—­and what is writ, is writ —
   Would it were worthier! but I am not now
   That which I have been—­and my visions flit
   Less palpably before me—­and the glow
Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.

CLXXXVI.

   Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been —
   A sound which makes us linger; yet, farewell! 
   Ye, who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene
   Which is his last, if in your memories dwell
   A thought which once was his, if on ye swell
   A single recollection, not in vain
   He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop shell;
   Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain,
If such there were—­with you, the moral of his strain.

Footnotes: 

{1} Lady Charlotte Harley, daughter of the Earl of Oxford.

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