The following lines, with the notes annexed, were written under circumstances of great bodily and mental suffering in the year 1833, when the learned and very accomplished gentleman who penned them proposed to return to his native country. They were inscribed by him to his friends, among whom it has long been the author’s happiness to have occupied a favoured place. The notes are not only illustrative of the “Adieu to Lima,” but also of several incidental remarks contained in the preceding pages—especially of the interesting ruins of Pachacamac alluded to in vol. i. page 144.
I.
Welcome, thou heaving dark blue Sea!
Thy luckless child am I;
Thine island-child was nurs’d by thee
Beneath the northern sky;
II.
In that proud land—baptiz’d of old
To freedom in thy waves—
Confirm’d in glory—steel-ribb’d hold