Then, sweet as the music in Assam's bowers,

When winds go singing among the flowers,

Or like the leaves of the lotus-tree

That touch each other in melody,

So sweetly a voice creeps into my soul

To woo my senses from earth's control,

And point to a world of rarer joy

Where pleasures are found that never cloy,

Where bliss supernal forever reigns,

And rapture gushes in seraph strains.