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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."

Shelley.

William Henry Dutton, M.A.
Master in Surgery, Doctor of Medicine, Member of Royal College
of Surgeons:
First Honourman in Language and Logic.
Gold Medallist and Classical Scholar

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

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