Are ye so haughty in your pride,

To deem of all the earth beside

That yours are fields and fragrant flowers,

And lute-like voices in your bowers,

And gold and gems of priceless worth,

And all the glory of the earth?

Ah, mean is all your pageantry

To that proud, fadeless blazonry,

That waves in scathless beauty free

Beneath the blue, old rolling sea!