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1849–1917

A SOUTH-SEA IDOL

Ruth McEnery Stuart

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.

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