Felicia Hemans,
Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 30 1831
(1831)
“ The sky is around me, the blue bright sky! "The hills lie beneath me, spread far and clear, With their glowing heath-flowers and bounding deer I see the waves flash on the sunny shore— I am free, I am free—I return no more!" Alas, alas, my Bird! Why seek'st thou to be free? ”
Felicia Hemans,
Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 30 1831
(1831)
“ Though Love might guard them, they joy'd to be free! They sprang from the earth with a burst of power, To the strength of their wings, to their triumph's hour! "Call them not back when the chain is riven, When the way of the pinion is all through heaven! ”
Felicia Hemans,
Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 30 1831
(1831)
“ The walls grow weak, the strife is vain, We will not perish here! Yield! yield! and let the crescent gleam O'er tower and bastion high! Our distant homes are beautiful— We stay not here to die! ”
