Where summer all the live-long year in changeless splendor reigns;

A peaceful land of calm delight, of everlasting bloom;

Old age and death we never know, no sickness, care, or gloom;

The land of youth,

Of love and truth,

From pain and sorrow free,

The land of rest,

In the golden west,

On the verge of the azure sea!

"There are strange delights for mortal men in that island of the west;