StoryTitle("caps", "Bermudas") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the remote Bermudas ride ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the ocean's bosom unespied, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From a small boat that row'd along ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The listening woods received this song: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"What should we do but sing His praise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That led us through the watery maze ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto an isle so long unknown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet far kinder than our own? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where He the huge sea-monsters wracks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That lift the deep upon their backs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He lands us on a grassy stage, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Safe from the storms' and prelates' rage: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He gave us this eternal Spring ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which here enamels everything, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sends the fowls to us in care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On daily visits through the air: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hangs in shades the orange bright ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like golden lamps in a green night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And does in the pomegranates close ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jewels more rich than Ormus shows: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He makes the figs our mouths to meet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And throws the melons at our feet; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But apples plants of such a price, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No tree could ever bear them twice. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With cedars chosen by His hand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From Lebanon He stores the land; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And makes the hollow seas that roar ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Proclaim the ambergris on shore. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He cast (of which we rather boast) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Gospel's pearl upon our coast; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in these rocks for us did frame ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A temple where to sound His name. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O, let our voice His praise exalt ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till it arrive at Heaven's vault, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which thence (perhaps) rebounding may ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Echo beyond the Mexique bay!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus sung they in the English boat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A holy and a cheerful note: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the way, to guide their chime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With falling oars they kept the time.", "") ?>
Poet("Andrew Marvell", "1621–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>