A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W. + 

I + 

Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads, + 

Adieu, the flow’ry plain: + 

I leave thine op’ning charms, O spring, + 

And tempt the roaring main. + 

II + 

In vain for me the flow’rets rise, + 

And boast their gaudy pride, + 

While here beneath the northern skies + 

I mourn for health deny’d. + 

III + 

Celestial maid of rosy hue, + 

O let me feel thy reign! + 

I languish till thy face I view, + 

Thy vanish’d joys regain. + 

IV + 

Susanna mourns, nor can I bear + 

To see the crystal show’r, + 

Or mark the tender falling tear + 

At sad departure’s hour; + 

V + 

Not unregarding can I see + 

Her soul with grief opprest: + 

But let no sighs, no groans for me, + 

Steal from her pensive breast. + 

VI + 

In vain the feather’d warblers sing, + 

In vain the garden blooms, + 

And on the bosom of the spring + 

Breathes out her sweet perfumes, + 

VII + 

While for Britannia’s distant shore + 

We sweep the liquid plain, + 

And with astonish’d eyes explore + 

The wide-extended main. + 

VIII + 

Lo! Health appears! celestial dame! + 

Complacent and serene, + 

With Hebe’s mantle o’er her Frame, + 

With soul-delighting mein. + 

IX + 

To mark the vale where London lies + 

With misty vapours crown’d, + 

Which cloud Aurora’s thousand dyes, + 

And veil her charms around, + 

X + 

Why, Phoebus, moves thy car so slow? + 

So slow thy rising ray? + 

Give us the famous town to view, + 

Thou glorious king of day! + 

XI + 

For thee, Britannia, I resign + 

New-England’s smiling fields; + 

To view again her charms divine, + 

What joy the prospect yields! + 

XII + 

But thou! Temptation hence away, + 

With all thy fatal train + 

Nor once seduce my soul away, + 

By thine enchanting strain. + 

XIII + 

Thrice happy they, whose heav’nly shield + 

Secures their souls from harms, + 

And fell Temptation on the field + 

Of all its pow’r disarms! + 