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The Bird of Paradise

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The Bird of Paradise.

A Romance.

"The starlight smile of children, the sweet looks
Of women, the fair breast from which I fed.
The murmur of the unreposing brooks,
And the green light which, shifting overhead.
Some tangled bower of vines around me shed;
The shells on the sea-sand and the wild flowers,
The lamplight through the rafters cheerly spread.
And on the twining flax—in life's young hours
These sights and sounds did nurse my spirit's folded Powers."

Dunedin, N.Z.: Printed by S. N. Brown and Co., Manse Street. 1896.

(All rights reserved.)

1 The Revolt of Islam, a poem in twelve cantos. Canto II. Percy Bysshe Shelley.

[Note added by Sara Berger as annotator]

2 *Of England. New Zealand Gazette January 1895.

[Note added by Sara Berger as annotator]

3 Referring to the honours with which Dutton graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1979.The Argus March 1879.

[Note added by Sara Berger as annotator]