Versos English Nathaniel Bright Emerson Canto I

English poem

Canto I

by (1839–1915)

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Whence art thou, thirsty wind, That gently kissest the sea, Then, wed to the ocean breeze, Playest fan with the breadfruit tree? 5 Here sprawl Hala-lii’s canes, There stands bird-haunted Lehua.