Here arts and commerce with auspicious reign
Once breathed sweet influence on the happy plain;
While o’er the lawn, with dance and festive song,
Young Pleasure led the jocund Hours along;
In gay luxuriance Ceres too was seen
To crown the vallies with eternal green:
For wealth, for valour, courted and revered,
What Albion is, fair Candia then appeared.—
Ah! who the flight of ages can revoke? }
The free-born spirit of her sons is broke, }