EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



Yet one fmall comfort foothes (while doom'd to part. 



Dear gallant youth !) thy parent's broken heart; 



No. more thy tender frame, thy blooming age. 



Shall be the fport of Ocean's turb'lent rage ; 



No more thy c//w-beauties on the waves 



Shall be the fcorn of fome European flaves j 



Whofe optics, blind to merit, ne'er could fpy 



That fterling worth could bloom beneath a weflern fky. 



No more, my dear — no mxore — (while Juch were Jcar^d) 



Undaunted {halt thou rock upon the yard ; 



There, while the filver moon gleam'd thro' the gale. 



With manly fkili and courage hand the fail. 



"When Fame, who fcann'd the value of her Tar, 



Did make thee fhine on board a man-of-war 



With honor * while, with equal glory fir'd, 



To pleafe a parent, brother, friend, thou e'er alpir'd j 

 TillDeath—relentlefs Death — none can wlthftand. 



To cut thy cable gave the last command ! ! \ 



Soar now, my angel, to thy Maker's fhrine. 

 There reap that prize, due to fuch worth as thine. 

 Fly, gentle fliade — fly to that bleft abode. 

 There view thy mother — and adore thy God : 



There, Oh! my Boy I on that celeftial fhore. 



Oh! may we gladly meet— -and part no more ! ! I 



A Parent. 



• Since the above lines were written, 

 the laft of his commanders, the gallant 

 Captain John Hutt, loft his life in the 

 memorable aflrion, fought under Admiral 

 Lord Howe, againft the French, on the 



I ft of June 1794. — This officer loved 

 my Sailor vrell ; nor was he lefs efteemed 

 by Captain Richard Keates, from whom 

 hs had the honour to receive his firfl 

 naval education. 



And 



