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Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 30. To Princess Kaiulani
[Written in April to Kaiulani in the April of her age; and at Waikiki, within easy walk of Kaiulani's banyan! When she comes to my land and her father's, and the rain beats upon the window (as I fear it will), let her look at this page; it will be like a weed gathered and pressed at home; and she will remember her own islands, and the shadow of the mighty tree; and she will hear the peacocks screaming in the dusk and the wind blowing in the palms; and she will think of her father sitting there alone. - R. L. S.]
FORTH from her land to mine she goes,
The island maid, the island rose,
Light of heart and bright of face:
The daughter of a double race.
Her islands here, in Southern sun,Shall mourn their Kaiulani gone,
And I, in her dear banyan shade,
Look vainly for my little maid.
But our Scots islands far away
Shall glitter with unwonted day,
And cast for once their tempests by
To smile in Kaiulani's eye.
Honolulu.Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's other poems:
- Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 13. Mater Triumphans
- About the Sheltered Garden Ground
- Voluntary
- Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 28. To an Island Princess
- Tempest Tossed and Sore Afflicted
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