26 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. 



IV. 



O, the broad blue sea, 

 It has charms for me ; 

 For I love to dream 

 Of islands that seem 



Like beautiful regions far out in the west, 

 Where frosts never blight, and all nature is blest ; 

 Till I long to set sail, with the red setting sun, 

 And find on their shores a new life begun. 



V. 



O, the broad blue sea, 

 It has charms for me ; 

 For I love to believe 

 That I yet shall perceive 

 New sources of power revealed by its waves, 

 New lessons of wisdom and life in its caves ; 



And the voice of the sea shall grow sweeter each day, 

 Till the voices of earth shall all fade away. 



