Scanning the shores of sweet Canary.

3.

Lustrously sailing here and there,

Afloat in the beatific air,

Birds, of purple and blue and gold,

Pour out their music manifold;

All day long in the leas they sing,

While the sun-kissed flowers are blossoming;

At eve, when the dew-drop feeds the rose,

And the fragrant water-lilies close,