Smiling o’er the fatal tide.

Kirke White. Gondoline.

“The maid was seen no more; but oft

Her ghost is known to glide

At midnight’s silent, solemn hour

Along the ocean’s tide.”

MOORE’S MELODIES.

Sweet Vale of Avoca, how calm could I rest

In the bosom of shade with the friends I love best;

Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,