Borne on the bosom of the breeze,

Our blessings speed across the seas!

Hail, Bride and Bridegroom of the West!

(Pray pardon my redundant lyre)

May your united lives be blest

With all your hearts’ desire!

Accept the warm felicitations

Of fond, if distant, blood-relations!

“How glad the happy pair must be
That Hymen’s bonds have set them free”