’Twas done, detected—I am here.”

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Her haven the stately ship has won,

The convict crew to their toils have gone.

There’s a grove of palms in that southern isle,

Through their coronaled tops the moonbeams smile

On a fairy hut, where vine-boughs throw

Their cluster’d wealth o’er the lattice low,

And dim the silvery rays that pour

Their brightness aslant the humble floor.