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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"Diamond water! diamond water! Warbling to all tribes and ages, Welling near us yet apart: Who is it guards it so? Watches and wards it so?—
If you fear any Spirit too much, you'll ne'er see it though flowing close by you—
But revere you no Spirit at all?—what you drink will but petrify you.