No light Arabian gales their wings expand,

To waft Sabæan incense o’er the land;

No graceful cedars crown thy lofty hills,

No trickling myrrh for thee its balm distils;

Not from thy trees the lucid amber flows,

And far from thee the scented cassia blows:

Yet fearless Commerce, pillar of thy throne,

Makes all the wealth of foreign climes thy own;

From Lapland’s shore to Afric’s fervid reign,

She bids thy ensigns float above the main;