“ And look a while upon a picture there:
⁠'Tis of a lady in her earliest youth,
The last of that illustrious family.
He who observes it, ere he passes on,
Gazes his fill, and comes and comes again,
That he may call it up when far away. ”

“ Those to whom their profession has made the watery world their element, have been still more feelingly impressed with sentiments of this nature. The calm that impeded their course; the favouring gales that pleasurably wrafted them to their desired haven ”

“ Soothing and balmy, if but brief.
⁠The dewy eve, the dewy eve,
Oh! that’s the time when men believe
The wild romance or fairy tale,
At which the urchin’s cheek turns pale;
’Tis then they harvest soothing thought,
With wisdom or with fancy fraught ”

“ Why, mother, do you look so pale?
And why are you so cold?"
It hath pleas’d God, from the poor wretch,
His only friend to call;
But God was kind to him, and soon
In death restor’d them all.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ My faither seem’d shakin’ aff some o’ his years,
As be ran o’er his combats, his hopes, and his fears;
An’ in pride o’ auld age cam’ the look and the smile,
That tauld hoo his heart was uplifted the while. ”