The scions of his love may still increase,

And o’er a land where life has ample room,

In health and plenty innocently bloom.

Delightful land, in wildness e’en benign,

The glorious past is ours, the future thine!

As in a cradled Hercules, we trace

The lines of empire in thine infant face.

What nations in thy wide horizon’s span

Shall teem on tracts untrodden yet by man!

What spacious cities with their spires shall gleam