Angel of life

Recitativo:

Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore

Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.

Lo! to the wint'ry winds the pilot yields

His bark careering o'er unfathom'd fields;

Now on the Atlantic waves he rides afar,

Where Andes, giant of the western star,

With meteor-standard to the winds unfurl'd,

Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world.

Aria:

Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm,

Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form!

Rocks, waves, and winds the shatter'd bark delay;

Thy heart is sad, thy home is far away.

But Hope can here her moonlight vigils keep,

And sing to charm the spirit of the deep.