Fancy such raptures shall suggest,
Lov'd inmate of thy ravish'd breast;
Shall point where wanton zephyrs stray,
And o'er th' unruffled ocean play.
Or snatch thee to some wave-worn shore,
Where fierce Atlantic surges roar:
Where Plata with resistless force
Thro' deserts rolls his rapid course,
Or where Maranan proudly laves
Waste regions with his circling waves:
Where boundless Oroonoko fills
His channels from a thousand hills,
And with regardless rage destroys;
While twenty mouths with hideous noise,
From some immense Peruvian steep,
Spout his vex'd billows to the deep.
Thus while you view the tyrant flood,
Wild dread shall chill thy loitering blood;
And frighted Fancy, self-amaz'd,
Start at the phantom she had rais'd.