Across the bays
     The magical names
     A fairyland reveals.
     Did bays call out to christening men?
     'Name me! Name me! Name me!'
     
     LONG BAY as plain
     As BRANDY WINE is drunk.
     What's devilish about?
     DEVIL'S BAY?
     Whose blunder, BLUNDER BAY?
     
     The wives thrown out on
     ‘THROW WAY WIFE BAY'
     They must be moaning still.
     
     What cow was wrecked?
      On ‘COW WRECK BAY?'
     What jokes must pass between these bays
     When CROOK'S BAY
     Says to SMUGGLER'S COVE,
     ‘Whose deeds are worse your sins or mine?'
     
     SADDLE BAY, TABLE BAY,
     How extra ordinarily dull!
     Give me such names as MANCHINEEL
     Whose fruits make meddlers cry?
     
     MANGROVE BAY
     No guessing there;
     GRAVEL BAY and BALLAST BAY
     Your duties are clear as day.
     
     MOTHER HAGEL BAY,
     LORMER, BATSON, BAUGHERS,
      FAT HOGS, MUSKMELON?
     Who named you?
     God only knows!
     
     Strike up your chord!
     Decide your place!
     Jump on the score you notes!
     And then rejoice you famous Bays.
     
     You infamous ones cry shame,
     Your haunting melodies rebounds
     Against the waves.
     
     Then let the currents hold the notes,
     The reefs crescendo swell,
     Then wash again and join in one,
     The great hallelujah song!