To thy star-lighted dome!

Midst wilds of bramble, brake and thorn,

What boots it here to roam?

A desert drear, where howls the storm,

A sea, where billows roar,

Between the gods and giants form

The bound’ry ever more.

“In warlike games and banquets gay

The Asar pass their time,

Warm’d by the sun’s eternal ray