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Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles / In the golden haze off yonder, / Where the song of the sun-kissed breeze beguiles / And the ocean loves to wander.
Fragrant the vines that mantle those hills, / Proudly the fig rejoices, / Merrily dance the virgin rills, / Blending their myriad voices.
Our herds shall suffer no evil there, / But peacefully feed and rest them -- / Never thereto shall prowling bear / Or serpent come to molest them.
Neither shall Eurus, wanton bold, / Nor feverish drought distress us, / But he that compasseth heat and cold / Shall temper them both to bless us.
There no vandal foot has trod, / And the pirate hordes that wander / Shall never profane the sacred sod / Of these beautiful isles out yonder.
Never a spell shall blight our vines / Nor Sirius blaze above us.
But you and I shall drink our wines / And sing to the loved that love us.
So come with me where fortune smiles / And the gods invite devotion -- / Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles / In the haze of that far-off ocean!