Great gifts, and the large love of giving meet,

Well harmonised in Jenny Lind's career;

These made her life delight, these make her memory dear.

Punch, of well-fitting phrases ready minter,

Christened his favourite forty years ago;

Hailed as "The Nightingale that Sings in Winter,"[A]

The Swedish songstress whom the voice of woe

Moved ever, as her own

Moved the applauding multitude; alone,

Amidst the stars of Opera's tuneful quire,