PS 
 
 2684 
 
 D7 
 
 1880 
 
 MAIN 
 
 IRLF 
 
 B 3 315 2M5 
 
GIFT OF 
 John C, Lynch, 
 
DRIFTING 
 
 BY 
 
 T. BUCHANAN READ. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED 
 
 FROM DESIGNS BY MISS L. B. HUMPHREY. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA : 
 
 J. B LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. 
 
 715 AND 717 MARKET STREET. 
 
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 COPYRISHT, 
 
 1880, 
 ;Y J. R. LU-PINCOTT & Co. 
 
 
 
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 DRIFTING. 
 
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 "IV /TY soul to-day 
 Is far away, 
 
 Sailing the Vesnvian Bay; 
 My winged boat, 
 A bird afloat, 
 Swims round the purple peaks remote : 
 
"DOTJND purple peaks 
 It sails, and seeks 
 
 Blue inlets and their crystal creeks, 
 Where high rocks throw, 
 Through deeps below, 
 
 A duplicated golden glow. 
 
AR, vague, and dim, 
 
 The mountains swim ; 
 While on Vesuvius misty brim, 
 "With outstretched hands, 
 The gray smoke stands 
 Overlooking the volcanic lands. 
 
~TN lofty lines, 
 
 Mid palms and pines, 
 And olives, aloes, elms, and vines, 
 Sorrento swings 
 On sunset wings, 
 Where Tasso s spirit soars and sings. 
 
II EKE Ischia smiles 
 O er liquid miles; 
 And yonder, bluest of the isles, 
 Calm Capri waits, 
 Her sapphire gates 
 Beguiling to her bright estates. 
 
HEED not, if 
 
 My rippling skiff 
 Float swift or slow from cliff to 
 
 cliff;- 
 With dreamful eyes 
 My spirit lies 
 Under the walls of Paradise. 
 
 Under the walls 
 Where swells and falls 
 The Bay s deep breast at intervals 
 
At peace I lie, 
 Blown softly by, 
 A cloud upon this liquid sky. 
 
 The day, so mild, 
 
 Is Heaven s own child, 
 With Earth and Ocean reconciled; 
 
 The airs I feel 
 
 Around me steal 
 Are murmuring to the murmuring keel. 
 
the rail 
 
 My hand I trail 
 Within the shadow of the sail, 
 A joy intense, 
 The cooling sense 
 Glides down my drowsy indolence 
 
"TTTITH dreamful eyes 
 
 My spirit lies 
 Where Summer sings and never 
 
 dies, 
 
 O erveiled with vines, 
 
 She glows and shines 
 
 Among her future oil and wines. 
 
TTER children, hid 
 The cliffs amid, 
 Are gambolling with the 
 
 gambolling kid; 
 Or down the walls, 
 With tips} 7 calls, 
 Laugh on the rocks like 
 waterfalls. 
 
 
fisher s child, 
 With tresses wild, 
 Unto the smooth, bright sand beguiled, 
 "With glowing lips 
 Sings as she skips, 
 Or gazes at the far-off ships. 
 
deep bark goes 
 Where Traffic blows, 
 From lands of sun to lands 
 of snows : 
 
 This happier one, 
 Its course is run 
 From lands of snow to 
 lands of sun. 
 
/ \ HAPPY ship, 
 
 To rise and dip, 
 
 With the blue crystal at your lip ! 
 O happy crew, 
 My heart with you 
 
 Sails, and sails, and sings anew! 
 
"VTO more, no more 
 
 The worldly shore 
 Upbraids me with its loud uproar! 
 
 With dreamful eyes 
 
 My spirit lies 
 Under the walls of Paradise ! 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY