Classic Poem

Thou restless fluctuating deep,
Expressive of the human mind,
In thy for-ever-varying form,
My own inconstant self I find.

How soft now flow thy peaceful waves,
In just gradations to the shore,
While on thy brow, unclouded shines
The regent of the midnight hour!

Blest emblem of that equal state,
Which I this moment feel within:
Where thought to thought succeeding rolls,
And all is placid and serene.

As o'er thy smoothly flowing tide,
Their light the trembling moon-beams dart,
My lov'd E UDOCIA'S image smiles,
And gayly brightens all my heart.

But ah! this flatt'ring scene of peace,
By neither can be long possest,
When E URUS breaks thy transient calm,
And rising sorrows shake my breast.

Obscur'd thy C YNTHIA'S silver ray
When clouds opposing intervene:
And ev'ry joy that friendship gives
Shall fade beneath the gloom of spleen.