The clust'ring isles, (once Fortune's own domain)

That break the surges of th' Atlantic main.

High on our left, rear'd by volcanic fires,

Shading all ocean, Teneriffe aspires;

Above the topmost clouds, with giant might,

Heaves his Promethean peak to seize the light;

And thro' conducting veins, with chemic pow'r,

Recruits exhausted nature's fiery store.

While from the West ambrosial scents exhale,

As Palma shakes her orchards to the gale.