Noqu Talanoa: Stories from the South Seas

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European Mail, 1896 - Polynesia - 178 pages
 

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Page 80 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good : No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal : And none will doubt but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation.
Page 166 - The cava feast, the yam, the cocoa's root, Which bears at once the cup, and milk, and fruit; The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...

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