...living awhile apart From all the restless world, and nearer God. Davey, Photo A HONOLULU BANYAN TREE "It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree. For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending...

...on high, And with a last and loudest cry They call on Arvalan. IL THE RETREAT. From Book XIII. (v.) TWAS a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending...

...we have none ; . . why travel on in fear T We cannot fly from Fate, and Fate will find us here. 50 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending...

...Kailyal cries, Or wherefore seek in vain a place of rest ? Have we not here the Earth beneath our tread A brook that winds through this sequester'd glade,...goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread. Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending...

...of the truest scenes to be met with in the vast and unknown tracts of those seldom explored epics. " 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...goodly sight to see That venerable tree ; For, o'er the lawn irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending...

...single banyan. The Muse of Southey has never been more happily employed than in its description. " It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree. For o'er the lawn irregularly spread Fifty straight columns propped its lofty head : And many a long depending...