At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1871 - 465 pages |
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amid asphalt beautiful believe beneath birds blazing Boca boughs brown bush cacao called Caripe civilization cliff Cloth cloud Cocorite colored Coolie cultivation Dâaga dark English estates eyes fancy feet high Fer-de-lance flowers forest French fresh fruit garden gray green Grenada growing Guacharo Guadaloupe Gulf Gulf of Paria half head hills horses huge island ladies lake land least leaves light looked Lucia mangrove Martinique miles monkeys Montserrat Moriche palms mountain negro never night northern Obeah once Orinoco palm pitch Pitch Lake plants Port of Spain probably purple rich rock roots round San Josef savanna seemed seen shade ship shore side soil Spaniards Spanish spot stem stood strange surf tall thing tree Trinidad tropic vegetation Virgin Gorda West Indian West Indies whole wild wind wonder wood yellow
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Page 307 - Tis the noon of autumn's glow, When a soft and purple mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolved star Mingling light and fragrance, far From the curved horizon's bound To the point of Heaven's profound, Fills the overflowing sky; And the plains that silent lie Underneath, the leaves unsodden Where the infant Frost has trodden With his morning-winged feet, Whose bright print is gleaming yet...
Page 307 - The rough, dark-skirted wilderness; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air...
Page 450 - If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve, — To the hills of the Chankly Bore !' Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Page 17 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Page 25 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Page 286 - It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Page 191 - ... green cloud, and long for a moment to be a monkey. There may be monkeys up there over your head, burly red Howler, or tiny peevish Sapajou, peering down at you ; but you cannot peer up at them. The monkeys, and the parrots, and the humming-birds, and the flowers, and all the beauty, are upstairs—up above the green cloud. You are in " the empty nave of the cathedral," and " the service is being celebrated aloft in the blazing roof.