At Last: A Christmas in the West IndiesMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 401 pages |
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aloft amid asphalt beautiful beneath birds blazing blue Bocas boughs brown bush cacao called Caripe Chacon Chaguaramas civilization cliff coco-nut Cocorite coloured Coolie crimson Dâaga dark English estates eyes fancy feet high Fer-de-lance fish flowers forest French fresh fruit garden green cloud grey growing Guacharo Guadaloupe Gulf of Paria head height Heliconia hills huge hundred feet island land least leaves light look mangrove Martinique Matapalos miles monkeys Montserrat Moriche palms mountain Negro never northern Obeah once palm Palmistes pitch Pitch Lake plants poisonous Port of Spain primæval probably purple rich right and left rock roots round San Josef Savanna seemed seen shade shore side soil Spaniards Spanish spider spider monkey spot stem strange surf tall tree Trinidad tropic vegetation West Indian West Indies whole wild wonder wood yards yellow young
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Page 252 - The rough, dark-skirted wilderness; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air...
Page 216 - And soon with this he other matter blended, Cheerfully uttered, with demeanour kind, But stately in the main ; and, when he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit man so firm a mind.
Page 371 - If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve, — To the hills of the Chankly Bore !' Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Page 29 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 252 - Tis the noon of autumn's glow, When a soft and purple mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolved star Mingling light and fragrance, far From the curved horizon's bound To the point of Heaven's profound, Fills the overflowing sky; And the plains that silent lie Underneath, the leaves unsodden Where the infant Frost has trodden With his morning-winged feet, Whose bright print is gleaming yet...
Page 232 - It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Page 300 - Thus did cultivation, driven out, leave the East, and perhaps the Deserts formerly robbed of their coverings : like the wild hordes of old over beautiful Greece, thus rolls...
Page 60 - Castellani in respect of their tyranny and oppression, and that she delivered all such nations about her, as were by them oppressed, and having freed all the coast of the northern world from their servitude had sent me to free them also, and withal to defend the country of Guiana from their invasion and conquest.