Surpassing all other),

Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere.

There’s a spell in the shade

Where our infancy played

Even stronger than time, and more deep than despair.

An exile from home, splendour dazzles in vain:

Oh! give me my lowly thatched cottage again;

The birds and the lambkins that came at my call;

Those who named me with pride,

Those who played by my side,