Guernsey! to me and in my partial eyes
Thou art a holy and enchanted isle,
Where I would linger long, and muse the while
Of ancient thoughts and solemn memories,
Quickening the tender tear or pensive smile:
Guernsey!—for nearly thrice a hundred years
Home of my fathers! refuge from their fears,
And haven to their hope,-when long of yore
Fleeing Imperial Charles and bloody Rome,
Protestant martyrs, to thy seagirt shore
They came to seek a temple and a home,
And found thee generous,—I their son would pour
My heartfull all of praise and thanks to thee
Island of welcomes,—friendly, frank, and free!
Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands.