Victoria University of Wellington Library
Title: Ranolf and Amohia: A South-Sea Day-Dream
Author: Alfred Domett
Publication details: Smith, Elder and Company, 1872, London
Part of: Nineteenth-Century Novels Collection
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence
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"Golden water! golden water! Flowing freely, flowing ever, Flowing since the World began; What shall we pour it in— Heedfully store it in?—
If your calabash be not quite clean—if any foulness begrime or besmutch it,
O you never will catch the clear rillet—it will shrink away as you touch it!