Whose shores are as a harp, where billows break

In spray of music, and the breezes shake

O’er spicy seas a woof of colour and tone,

While that sweet music echoes like a moan

In the island’s heart, and sighs around the lake,

Where, watching fearfully a watchful snake,

A damsel weeps upon her emerald throne.

Life’s ocean, breaking round thy senses’ shore

Struck golden song, as from the strand of day:

For us the joy, for thee the fell foe lay—