Captain Cook (To My Brother)

Do you recall the fancies of many years ago,
______ the pulse danced those light measure that again it ______ know!
Ah! We both of us are alter’d, and ______ we talk no more
Of all the old creations ______ haunted us of yore.

Then any favourite volume was ______ mine of long delight,
From whence we took our future, to fashion as we might,
We liv’d again its pages, we were its chiefs and kings,
As actual, but ______ pleasant, than what the day now brings.

It was ______ August evening, with sunset in the trees,
When home ______ brought his Voyages who found the Fair South Seas.
______ read it till the sunset amid the boughs grew dim;
All other favourite heroes were nothing beside him.

For ______ he was our idol, we sail’d with him at sea,
And the pond amid the willows the ocean seem’d ______ be.
The water-lilies growing beneath the morning smile,
We ______ the South Sea islands, each flower a different isle.

______ golden lot that fortune could draw for human life,
______ us seemed like a sailor’s, mid the storm and strife.
Our talk was of fair vessels that swept before ______ breeze,
And new discover’d countries amid the Southern seas.

______ that lonely garden what happy hours went by,
While ______ fancied that around us spread foreign sea and sky.
Ah! the dreaming and the distant no longer haunt the mind;
We leave in leaving childhood, life’s fairy land behind.

______ is not of that garden a single tree or flower;
They have plough’d its long green grasses and cut ______ the lime-tree bower,
Where are the Guelder roses, whose ______ used to bring,
With the gold of the laburnums, ______ tribute to the Spring.

They have vanish’d with the ______ that with their treasures play’d;
The life that cometh after, dwells in a darker shade.
Yet the name of ______ sea-captain, it cannot but recall
How much we lov’d ______ dangers, and we mourn’d his fall.

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