Dark in the midnight cloud,

When the wild blast upon its pinions bore

The dying shrieks of Erin's injured sons,[14]

She 'scaped the murderer's arm.

The British bark

Bore her across the ocean. From the West

The whirlwind rose, the fire-fraught clouds of Heaven

Were mingled with the wave. The shatter'd bark

Sunk at thy feet, Bolerium, and the white surge

Closed on green Erin's daughter.