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MANUSCRIPT POEM
Found in the Rui711 of Rool"fDood Grange, 011 'he Demi8e
of it, last Tenant, Hannah Morrison.
A MOTHER parts from her sailor boy;
Her lone heart knows no hope or joy,
Although he cries, " To my native shore,
o mother, rll soon return once more."
Long hours and days are gone,
And years roll on; yet still no word
Of comfort cheers the mother's moan,
Till one stern voice is heard.
Weep on, weep on; thy sailor boy
Is gone to the land of hope and joy:
Lo! he sleeps 'neath the wave on a foreign shore,
And he'll now return to thee no more.
That cold, stern voice has falsely shown,
For sorrowing hearts are ne'er alone,
And, wafted from the spirit shore,
The loved and lost return once more.
And the lone one's sailor boy
Is near, and ever hovering round,
And fondly whispering in her ear,
"Weep not! thy child is found.
" An angel is thy sailor boy;
-:From lands of hope, and love, and joy,
He comes to say, though life is o'er,
He now returns to part no more."