THE ISLES OF THE PACIFIC.
, '' 'S of palms ami cotal sand, [ _ Studded throughout tin- azure main, Kmeruld gems from the Almighty Laud, " 1“* st *° thee oueo must look again. Nestling in the bright wean blue, ' V "*;■ tlmt IP*™ thpo Lirth, W it a thy l>n<r ht runs » -i gold*!! hue, ' e seem like gems of untold worth. Ye coral isles that lie so low, t 'tv erowned with tall and tapering palms, Your children, who not long ago ° W ere timid, now have no alarms. 1 Ye larger isles with mountains high, Are to your tops with verdure clad, 1 by little streamlets rippling byo , Seem laughing, us though ail wore glad. , Within thy.woods of tali dark trees, I ,s Leard the pigeon's lotto deep boom, . Anil the dove’s eoo, and the mild breeze, W oo’s the doves from out the gloom. Alas.' and must I say farewell To all those scones of earthly hliss; I'atit would I stay and ’mongst them dwell lint i must hie far from this. W.
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 2, 13 October 1877, Page 3
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171THE ISLES OF THE PACIFIC. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 2, 13 October 1877, Page 3
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