The graceful gulls with sunlight on their wings

Up the Matanzas soaring fleet and far

Where inlets deep beguile;

And o’er the waters undulant shimmerings

The low coquina isle.

XIII

Then, at the drooping of the twilight hour,

We wander in the ancient plaza where

We breathe the attar of the jasmine flower

Like incense on the altar of the air;