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 FROM DESIGNS BY MISS L. B. HUMPHREY. 
 
 WASH15S: 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 J. B. LIPP1NCOTT & CO. 
 
 LONDON: 16 SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND. 
 1881. 
 

 Copy right, 
 
 1880, 
 
 lY J. B. LlPPINCOTT & CO. 
 
 L IP P I NCOTT S 
 PRESS. 
 
DRIFTING. 
 

 
"A /TY soul to-day 
 Is far away, 
 Sailing the Yesuvian Bay ; 
 My winged boat, 
 A bird afloat, 
 Swims round the purple peaks remote : — 
 
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 OUND purple peaks 
 It sails, and seeks 
 Blue inlets and their crystal creeks, 
 "Where high rocks throw, 
 Through deeps below, 
 A duplicated golden glow. 
 


"TT^AR, vague, and dim, 
 The mountains swim ; 
 
 While on Vesuvius' misty brim, 
 With outstretched hands, 
 The gray smoke stands 
 
 O'erlooking the volcanic lands. 
 

TN lofty lines, 
 
 'Mid palms and pines, 
 And olives, aloes, elms, and vines, 
 
 Sorrento swings 
 
 On sunset wings, 
 Where Tasso's spirit soars and sings. 
 
TTERE Ischia smiles 
 O'er liquid miles ; 
 
 And yonder, bluest of the is 
 Calm Capri waits, 
 Her sapphire gates 
 
 Beguiling to her bright estates. 
 
J HEED not, if 
 
 My rippling skiff 
 Float swift or slow from cliff to 
 cliff;— 
 With dreamful eyes 
 My spirit lies 
 Under the walls of Paradise. 
 
 Under the walls 
 Where swells and falls 
 The Bay's deep hreast at intervals 
 
At peace I lie, 
 Blown softly by, 
 A cloud upon this liquid sky. 
 
 The day, so mild, 
 
 Is Heaven's own child, 
 With Earth and Ocean reconciled;— 
 
 The airs I feel 
 
 Around me steal 
 Are murmuring to the murmuring keel. 
 
/"AVER the rail 
 
 My hand I trail 
 Within the shadow of the sail, 
 
 A joy intense, 
 
 The cooling sense 
 Glides down my drowsy indolence. 
 
ITH dreamful eyes 
 My spirit lies 
 Where Summer sings and never 
 dies, — 
 O'erveiled with vines, 
 She glows and shines 
 Among her future oil and wines. 
 
TTER children, hid 
 The cliffs amid, 
 Are gambolling with the 
 gambolling kid ; 
 Or down the walls, 
 With tipsy calls, 
 Laugh on the rocks like 
 waterfalls. 
 
rpHE fisher's child, 
 
 With tresses wild, 
 Unto the smooth, bright sand beguiled, 
 
 With glowing lips 
 
 Sings as she skips, 
 Or gazes at the far-off: ships. 
 
~X7^0N deep bark goes 
 Where Traffic blows 
 From lands of sun to lands 
 of snows ; — 
 
 This happier one, 
 
 Its course is run 
 
 From lands of snow to 
 
 lands of sun. 
 
r\ HAPPY ship, 
 
 To rise and dip, 
 
 With the blue crystal at your lip! 
 O happy crew, 
 My heart with you 
 
 Sails, and sails, and sings anew! 
 
"VTO more, no more 
 
 The worldly shore 
 Upbraids me with its loud uproar ! 
 
 With dreamful eyes 
 
 My spirit lies 
 Under the walls of Paradise ! 
 

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