Escaped to Endless Rest Lyrics

On you the blast, surcharged with rain and snow
In winter's dismal nights no more shall beat
Unfelt by you the vertic Sun may glow
And scorch the panting Earth with baneful heat.
No more the joyful maid, with sprightly strain,
Shall wake the dance to give yon welcome home;
Nor hopeless love impart undying pain,
When far from scenes of social joy you roam.

No more on yon wide watery waste you stray
While hunger and disease your life consume
While parching thirst, that burns without allay
Forbids the blasted rose of health to bloom.
No more you feel Contagion's mortal breath
That taints the realms with misery severe
No more behold pale famine, scattering death
With cruel ravage desolate the year.

The thundering drum, the trumpet's swelling strain
Unheard, shall form the long embattled line
Unheard, the deep foundations of the main
Shall tremble, when the hostile squadrons join.
Since grief, fatigue, and hazards still molest
The wandering vassals of the faithless deep
Oh! happier now escaped to endless rest
Than we who still survive to wake and weep.