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Behold I bring a Kingdom in my hand, / Oh bend your eyes upon it!... Ways of peace / Lead by its rivers. Fields of rest are these / Above the endless skies of God expand. / Oceans of dear delight kiss on the sand, / And azure islands lift their waving trees / Where virgin forests' twined interstices / Shadow the pools of sleep, deep inland seas!
This is my lovely Kingdom.... Tho' you reign / Over an empire, proud, imperial, / Annex this land of beauty to your part; / Else, like a mirage, seen, then lost again / It fade forever! Kingdoms vanish all -- / Immortal is the land of love, Sweetheart!