Or the glad sweet laugh of their healthful flow

Is heard midst the hamlets low.

Or whether ye gladden the desert sands

With a joyous music to pilgrim bands,

And a flash from under some ancient rock,

Where a shepherd king might have watch’d his flock,

Where a few lone palm-trees lift their heads,

And a green acacia spreads.

Or whether, in bright old lands renown’d,

The laurels thrill to your first-born sound,