The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores,

Views not a realm so bountiful and fair,

Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air;

In every clime, the magnet[424] of his soul,

Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole:

3. For in this land of heaven’s peculiar grace,

The heritage[425] of nature’s noblest race,

There is a spot of earth supremely[426] blest,

A dearer, sweeter pot than all the rest,

Where man, creation’s tyrant, casts aside