...IL on! toil on! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on — for the wisdom of man ye mock. With your sand-based structures and domes of rock ; Tour columns the fathomless fountains lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave; THE COKAL...

...Toil on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build on the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on ! for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures...domes of rock, Your columns the fathomless fountains' cave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race thus to boldly rear A fabric...

...Toil on 1 toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main : Toil on ! for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rock." At intervals, usually opposite the mouth of a freshwater stream, the coral insects leave a space large...

...mock, With your sand-baaed structures and domes of rock, Your columns the fathomless fountains' cave , And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're...boldly rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. Ye build— ye build — but ye enter not in. Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin ;...

...the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on, — for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-bas'd structures and domes of rock. Your columns the fathomless...boldly rear . A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. But why do ye plant, 'neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? There are snares...

...TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on ! for upple breast thrills out cave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye 're a puny race thus to boldly rear A fabric...

...lave, And your arehes spring up to the erested wave ; Ye're a puny raee, thus to boldly rear A fabrie so vast, in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with your seeret zone, The oeean is seal'd, and the surge a stone ; Fresh wreaths from the eoral pavement spring,...