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They dragg ed me to the wild sea- § hbre , Chok'd with hot dust and rage , and gore , And in a ship ' s dark hold I TaV
Gasping and tossing night and day , Till suffer ed on the deck to be , I rose , and saw the wide , blear sea—And groaning thought of thee—of thee , Delora !
Day , night and day , ' twas ceaseless work , Else they had toss'd me to the shark , Or starv'd me . Ne ' er my spirit strong Had lent my body to this wrong , But that a hope I treasur ed fond , A will that ever could respond , A deep , deep love , all words beyond : Delora !
Arriv d , they sold me for a slave 1 I curs'd not , nor did idly rave , But fainting at the burning 1 , oar , Month after month my state I bore : And when years pass'd , like endless seas , Mv high-wrought heart scorn'd time ' s degrees , sStill sighing to each passing breeze , Delora I
Five y ears > —attd then my chains I burst , A ^^ 0 )? . ^ e Homeward wave was toss'd * A 4 y « welfeift besom yeam'd for wings , JjJjkfPww wa » fancy s echomgs ; E ^ h warning did my spirit leap , JbrfW it * brief rest in feverish sleep , Attditxstant sped across the deep .: -.. : ' - / Delora !
. ¦ . ¦ - . • . ¦ ' ¦ • •¦ . -CltM , Jii » r , ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' Again upon the wild sea-shore I stood . What fears my bosom torel The agonizing doubts of wrong ' . To my sweet love , I'd borne thus long , Soon ended by some certainty f I dar'd not think which it nugiit "b ^ Deep bliss , or deep calamity ! Delora !
Andrem Como , iraised up froiq him & 4 r \ endnrai ^ oej , g ^ eth , ucrosa the bn > a 4 obeaatk in tb * moming t-wUigb / % , t -f |»> 6 ne to wbom a r ^ # urrec ^ ion and freah Ufa hxin ^ eikx no meetijag with the oingrle object of his soul I
Past , p « M » felonious Time I — toeu . cAn ' # t not r © b this man ' i heart of on * leeitaigr ; thorn can ' st not cbanjpe its flpwem , or dTy up its roots ; neither can ' st tbou dismantle the watch-tower of his enduring passion .
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iW The Ballad of Delora ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/4/
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