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THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 5, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On shores far foreign, or remoter seas
Last Line: All yet shall meet on heaven's eternal strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday


ON shores far foreign, or remoter seas,
How doth poor Scotland's wanderer hail thy ray,
Blest Sabbath! and with "joy of woe" survey
In thought his native dwelling 'mid its trees—
And childhood's haunts—and faces well-beloved—
Friends of his soul by distance made more dear!
Oh! as fond Memory scans them with a tear,
By Manhood be it shed—and unreproved:
He thinks of times—times ne'er to come again—
Sweet times, when to the old kirk, hand in hand,
With those he loved in his far Fatherland
He wont on Sabbath morn to cross the plain!
Tell him, Religion, and 'twill soothe his pain,
All yet shall meet on Heaven's eternal strand.





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