Sonnet[;] On Quitting School for College

1. 1Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell!
2. 2To you my grateful heart still fondly clings,
3. 3Tho' fluttering round on Fancy's burnish'd wings
4. 4Her tales of future Joy Hope loves to tell.
5. 5Adieu, adieu! ye much-lov'd cloisters pale!
6. 6Ah! would those happy days return again,
7. 7When 'neath your arches, free from every stain,
8. 8I heard of guilt and wonder'd at the tale!
9. 9Dear haunts! where oft my simple lays I sang,
10. 10Listening meanwhile the echoings of my feet,
11. 11Lingering I quit you, with as great a pang,
12. 12As when erewhile, my weeping childhood, torn
13. 13By early sorrow from my native seat,
14. 14Mingled its tears with hers--my widow'd Parent lorn.