Save the blue ocean at my feet, and the blue boundless sky.
Far off, as far as eye could see, the white-sailed ships did glide
Like spirits o’er the bounding deep, in glory and in pride,
Like light clouds on the ocean’s breast these vessels seemed to be,
For thousand times ten thousand waves rolled between them and me.
O pleasant, pleasant were the hours I spent upon that shore,
Their memory within my heart will linger evermore,
Ay, they will live within this heart among the bright and fair,
The beautiful and sunny things which I have garnered there.