With pitchers on their heads to stay and hear

Those songs, the busy villagers of the vale

Their green fields watered that gave them sure hopes

Of future plenty and of future joys.

Oh, how uncertain man's sure hopes and joys!

In this enchanted hollow that was scooped—

For so it seemed—by God's own mighty hand,

Where Nature shower'd her richest gifts to make

Another paradise, stood Krishnapore

With her two score and seven huts reared by