Hail, sweet endearments of domestic ties,

Charms of existence! angel sympathies!

Though Pleasure smile, a soft Circassian queen!

And guide her votaries through a fairy scene,

Where sylphid forms beguile their vernal hours

With mirth and music in Arcadian bowers;

Though gazing nations hail the fiery car

That bears the Son of Conquest from afar,

While Fame’s loud pæan bids his heart rejoice,

And every life-pulse vibrates to her voice;—