Where over the world, say where: You find an Island there, So lovely small with nations free, With people French and Dutch, Though talking English much, As the St. Martin in the sea? CHORUS: O, sweet Saint Martin's Land So bright by beach and strand With sailors on the sea And harbours free; Where the chains of mountains green Variously in sunlight sheen; O, I love thy Paradise, Nature beauty fairly nice! How pretty between all green Flamboyants beaming gleam Of flowers red by sunlight set! Thy cows and sheep and goats In meadows on or roads, They donkeys keen can't I forget. CHORUS Saint Martin, I like thy name, In which Columbus fame, And memories of old are closed. For me a great delight: Thy Southern Cross the night. May God the Lord protect thy coast! CHORUS