Tho' stern Farooa (10) swells the tide,

Small the danger each could see,

Friendship cried, you're safe with me.

On the hill, that upward towers,

Crown'd with shrubs and sweetest flowers,

There we taste eternal spring,

While the Wattle-bird ( 11) shall sing

Double joys to him and me,

Ever such let friendship be.

RECITATIVE.

Otoo. Resign, fond youth, each silly vain pretension.

Oedi. What good awaits my tacit condescension ?

Otee. Your fortunes with my son I'll link for

ever

So strong, that nought but death your

fates can sever.

Surrounding isles shall own thy sovereign

sway,

E'en distant Wateoo * shall tribute pay,

Be you their Chief, their powerful

Areekee (12).

'T' Ornai leave th' Otaheitean crown,

this is Otoo's decree.

(10) A strong arid dangerous wind.

(11) The most melodious in the islands,

* The farthest sltuated from Otaheite.

(12) King.

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