Yes! challenged them amid the wreck—
When they and the remorseless sea
Seem’d smiling on my agony.
Yet! have I loved a milder glow
Than yonder lurid fires bestow:
There was a moment! glorious time!
When I, amid my native bow’rs,
Unmoved by care—unsoiled by crime—
Would watch the sunshine beam for hours;
It glowed of my own self a part,