Excerpt from From Fair Hawaiiland: Poems Land of mighty mountains clad in verdure, Whose rugged crags appear like castles old, With stately towers and battlements dismantled, Where armed knights and warriors strong and bold Once fought for woman's love, and died to, please her, Oh, back you bring the heroic past to me, Until my bosom swells with strange emotions, And grand desires of fame and chivalry! Land of sparkling seas and golden sunlight, Land of luscious fruits and fragrant flowers, Where lissome-limbed and black-eyed dusky maidens g Beguile with song and dance the slumbrous hours, Fain would I revel in your vernal beauty, Mid sights and sounds I worship and adore, Dreaming of peace and love and things of gladness Till life on earth for me shall be no more! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.