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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 45, 13 June 1844, Page 4

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Spirits of A>r! Who woke that heavenly strain Wann with seraphic file ; Spirits of Air l 0 sweep again Your viewh S 3 lyre. Song of the Spirits, We are borne along on the passing gale, That softly is fanning onr silken sail ; On its trembling wings as we float along; Mortal! list to the Spirits’ song. Vrotn the distant land where the happy dwell. Where whispering lovers their fond vows tell, Where no sigh is heard, save the sigh of love, 1 Breathed by the .spirits who hither rove 5 3ta>m the land where the jessamine ever blows, £od the Camalate* breathes its sweet perfumes. Where light by day, and night there is none, Save the light that beams from beauty’s throne : Where Spring and Summer for ever reign, And the fairest flowrets bedeck the plain, Where blasts of the death wind never blow, Ant) tbe golden waters for ever flow, mortal! we’ve come on the Zephyr’s wings Jknd.have wak’d our wild harp’s murmurings, G«r journey of love to Thee to tell -, mortal] tis told, —Farewell—farewell. •Theflower by whioh the heaven of Indra is perfumed.