Classic Poem

Build me a tower beside the roaring sea,
Where, on the rock the billows dash and foam,
But where no stormy waves may come to me
To break the stillness of my lonely home.
There would I spend my peaceful days, and roam
Along the lofty cliff, where I might see
The stately gliding vessels go and come,
With bloated sails, across the glitt'ring sea.

There should my lamp, at evening, lend its light
To waving sailors on the heaving deep;
And, while the rolling waves should foam and swell,
Excited by the chilly winds of night,
There would I pond'ring sit, and nightly keep
My lonely watch, and bid the world farewell.