Versos English Albert Bigelow Paine A SOUTH-SEA IDOL

English poem

A SOUTH-SEA IDOL

by (1861–1937)

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There lives an old god in the isles of the West, And a wonderful god is he, With a star on his brow, and a star on his breast, While at left and at right, In their armor drest, A dragon and knight On his shoulders rest, And he dwells in the great South Sea.