And future ages all proclaim,

The island well deserves the name;

Since there the finest grove they see

Gracefully married to the sea.

Thus Sealund stands! thus took its birth

The brightest ornament of earth!

A south, with teeming verdure graced,

I’ th’ bosom of the north enchased!

Now through the vacant space doth flow

The wave, in which the heavenly bow