To fly, for safeguard, to some foreign shore,

Remote from Europe; from her blasted hopes;

Her fields of carnage, and polluted air.

"Fresh blew the wind, when o'er the Atlantic Main

The ship went gliding with her thoughtless crew;

And who among them but an Exile, freed

From discontent, indifferent, pleased to sit

Among the busily-employed, not more

With obligation charged, with service taxed,

Than the loose pendant—to the idle wind