"Woe to thee! I mourn, I mourn!

Woe to thee, O Vandal race!

Soon forgot, will be thy name,

Which the world, a tempest, swept.

"Gloriously didst thou arise

From the sea,--a meteor.

Fame and radiance lost for aye,

Thou wilt sink in blackest night.

"All the earth's rich treasures heaped

Genseric in Carthage fair.