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

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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]