In numbers lisping, here that course began
Which, through your early aid, has smoothly ran;
Here too, returning from your sister land,
Oft have I met your smile, your lib’ral hand:
Oft as I came Hibernia still has shown
That hospitality so much her own.
But now the prompter, Time, with warning bell,
Reminds me that I come to bid farewell!
With usual joy this visit I should pay,
But here, adieu is very hard to say.