Like the jewels of Heaven? Ah, me! ah, me!
Those gardens of gold in the opal main,
How they tempted the souls of the pilots of Spain!
But as John the old Sailor was wont to say,
When he told old tales in his comical way,
“’Tis only the gold that does good that is good—
And only the rightful gold is gain.
Alas for the spoil of the pilots of Spain!
’Twas fool’s gold all.”
