All the Colonies are prosp'rous!

Which, if I am not mistaken,

Will be news to many of them,

Say, for instance, to Barbadoes.

Gentlemen, who pull the purse-strings,

I presume you will, as usual,

Vote sufficient of the needful.

Go, then, and in these great labours

May the spirit of the Master,

Gitche Manito, the Mighty