The Journey Onward
As slow our ship, its foamy trek
Against the wind was cleaving
Her trembling pennant still looked back
To that dear isle 'twas leaving
So loath part we from all we love
From all the links that bind us
So turn our hearts, as on we rove
To those we've left behind us
So turn our hearts, as on we rove
To those we've left behind us
And when, in other climes, we meet
Some isle or vale enchanting
When all looks flowery, wild and sweet
And naught but love is wanting
We think how great had been our bliss
If Heaven had but assigned us
To live and die in scenes like this
With some we've left behind us
To live and die in scenes like this
With some we've left behind us
When round the bowl of vanished years
We talk with joyous seeming
With smiles that might as well be tears
So faint, so sad their beaming
While memory brings us back again
Each early tie that twined us
O, sweet's the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us
O, sweet's the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us
As travelers oft look back at eve
When eastward darkly going
To gaze upon that light they leave
Still faint behind them glowing
So when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consigned us
We turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy we leave behind us
We turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy we leave behind us
So when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consigned us
We turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy we leave behind us
Against the wind was cleaving
Her trembling pennant still looked back
To that dear isle 'twas leaving
So loath part we from all we love
From all the links that bind us
So turn our hearts, as on we rove
To those we've left behind us
So turn our hearts, as on we rove
To those we've left behind us
And when, in other climes, we meet
Some isle or vale enchanting
When all looks flowery, wild and sweet
And naught but love is wanting
We think how great had been our bliss
If Heaven had but assigned us
To live and die in scenes like this
With some we've left behind us
To live and die in scenes like this
With some we've left behind us
When round the bowl of vanished years
We talk with joyous seeming
With smiles that might as well be tears
So faint, so sad their beaming
While memory brings us back again
Each early tie that twined us
O, sweet's the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us
O, sweet's the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us
As travelers oft look back at eve
When eastward darkly going
To gaze upon that light they leave
Still faint behind them glowing
So when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consigned us
We turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy we leave behind us
We turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy we leave behind us
So when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consigned us
We turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy we leave behind us
Credits
Writer(s): Sharon Vanessa Fountain
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