When Cap'n Tom comes home

When Cap'n Tom comes home, and his sea chest

Is opened, oh, the shells that rainbow foam

Tossed on far shores, by us to be possessed

When Cap'n Tom comes home!

Cocoanuts for which gray, chattering monkeys clomb;

Tamarinds, and dates, and luscious sweetmeats pressed

Into blue jars of quaint pagoda dome!

Canaries, corals, shimmering shawls and, best

Of all, keepsakes that on wild seas a-roam

He carved from whale's tooth for a village blest

When Cap'n Tom comes home!