Volume 1

Poems / [Robert Bloomfield].

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Poems / [Robert Bloomfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He left his bamboo groves, his pleasant shore, He left his friends to hear new oceans roar, All confident, ingenuous, and bold. He heard the wonders by the white men told; With firm assurance trod the roUing deck, And saw his isle diminish to a speck, Plough'd the rough waves, and gain'd our northern clime, In manhood's ripening sense and nature's prime. Oh 1 had the fiend been vanquish'd ere he came, The ge-n'rous youth had spread my country's fame, Had known that honour dwells among the brave, And England had not prov'd the stranger's grave : Then, ere his waning sand of life had run. Poor Abba Thole might have seen his son '.* Rise, exultation', spirit, louder speak! Pity, dislodge thy dew-drops from my cheek: * Lee Bon, second son of tlic Kinji* of the Pelew islands, was brought to England by Capt. Wilson, and died of t!ip Small-pox, at RothiirliittlCi in 1784.