Dr. R. L. Spittel - Hail Lanka!
Hail Lanka!
Let others belaud the ways of the West, Or homeland or township, wherever it be, However mighty, however blest - Lanka, my Island, you are all to me. When homeward I keel from travels afar, And your mountains arise like wraiths from the sea, By rose of the dawn or beam of the star: Oh, Island mine, you are heaven to me. And from the Peak and the table-land That brave the blue dome's immensity,...
