Sweet fruit that may with Amrit vie.

The onward path pursuing still

From wood to wood, from hill to hill,

Your happy eyes at length will rest

On Pampá's lotus-covered breast.

Her banks with gentle slope descend,

Nor stones nor weed the eyes offend,

And o'er smooth beds of silver sand

Lotus and lily blooms expand.

There swans and ducks and curlews play,