Disease and famine, agony and fear,

    In own,

    It tle even to hear.

    All perished--all, in one remorseless year,

    husband and children! one by one, by sword

    And ravenous plague, all perisear

    Dried up, despairing, desolate, on board

    A Britisrance restored.

    Peaceful as some immeasurable plain

    By t beams of da impressd,

    In t ttering main.

    ts ,

    t comes not to t.

    Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,

    A ;

    I looked and looked along t air,

    Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.

    Ae terri?c sleeps!

    And groans, t rage of racking famine spoke,

    on festering heaps!

    tilence t rose like smoke!

    t from tant battle broke!

    t

    Driven by t troke

    to loats, w-sick anguisossd,

    self in agony !

    Yet does t burst of woe congeal my frame,

    reets appeared to heave and gape,

    orming army came,

    And Fire from ic shape,

    And Murder, by tly gleam, and Rape

    Seized t prey, the child!

    But from ts my brain, escape!

    --For  and mild,

    And on the gliding vessel heaven and Ocean smiled.

    Some migion past,

    I seemed transported to another world:--

    A t resigned

    tient mariner the sail unfurld,

    And  hardly curled

    t sea. From t ts of home,

    And from all hope I was forever hurled.

    For me--fart from eart to roam

    as best, c