ADIEU.
Written on board Packet Ship Algonquin, Captain Cheney—Bay of Delaware—pilot about to quit the ship—two p.m.—June 21st, 1835.
Adieu, Columbia! I have mark'd thee well,
Nor yet for ever do I leave thee now;
And busy thoughts of thee my bosom swell,
And thronging recollections load my brow:
I've pierced, from North to South, thy eternal woods,
Have dream'd in fair St. Lawrence' sweetest isle;[5]
Have breasted Mississippi's hundred floods,