See, on the barren coast, the lonely isle,

Mark’d with no step, uncheer’d by human smile,

Heart-sick and faint the ship-wreck’d wanderer stand,

Raise the dim eye, and lift the suppliant hand!

Explore with fruitless gaze the billowy main,

And weep—and pray—and linger—but in vain!

Thence, roving wild through many a depth of shade,

Where voice ne’er echo’d, footstep never stray’d,

He fondly seeks, o’er cliffs and deserts rude,

Haunts of mankind midst realms of solitude!