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"Now shame ye not your ocean gems
And Eastern gold to show?
Behold! how mine outburns them all!
God's smile is in its glow!"
And Eastern gold to show?
Behold! how mine outburns them all!
God's smile is in its glow!"
Fair blows the wind, the sail swells free,
High shoots the diamond spray,
And merrily o'er the murmuring sea
The light boat leaps away!
High shoots the diamond spray,
And merrily o'er the murmuring sea
The light boat leaps away!
They swarm'd around the fragile bark,
They strove with costlier lure
To bribe her maiden heart to shame,
And win her jewel pure.
They strove with costlier lure
To bribe her maiden heart to shame,
And win her jewel pure.
"We bring thee rank—we bring thee power—
We bring thee pleasures free—
No empress, in her silk-hung bower,
May queen her realm like thee!
We bring thee pleasures free—
No empress, in her silk-hung bower,
May queen her realm like thee!
"Now yield us up the one white pearl
Tis but a star, whose ray
Will fail thee, rash, devoted girl,
When tempests cloud thy way."
Tis but a star, whose ray
Will fail thee, rash, devoted girl,
When tempests cloud thy way."
