There God's indulgent hand made for a race

Supremely blest a paradise on earth.

A land of virtue, truth, and charity,

Where nature's choicest treasures man enjoyed

With little toil, where youth respected age,

Where each his neighbour's wife his sister deemed,

Where side by side the tiger and the lamb

The water drank, and sported oft in mirth.

A land where each man deemed him highly blest

When he relieved the miseries of the poor,