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First Line: Forth from her land to mine she goes
Last Line: There alone. --
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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.

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. --





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