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Rh To Teneriffe and the Azores,

Have shown our faint and cloud-like shores.

But sink not yet, ye desolate isles,

Anon your coast with commerce smiles,

And richer freights ye'll furnish far

Than Africa or Malabar.

Be fair, be fertile evermore,

Ye rumored but untrodden shore;

Princes and monarchs will contend

Who first unto your lands shall send,

And pawn the jewels of the crown

To call your distant soil their own.

Sea and land are but his neighbors,

And companions in his labors,