The New Hawaiian Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHIJK LDJL FJMNO JE JPQ KR K STSTUU V W K XYZA2S V SCC K AB2C2 V AB2 P C2B2D2D2 V A E2F2E V G2F2G2H2 I2 A H2J2LRLK2K2 L2 WM2WM2 N2 QQO2 P2 O2Q2 G2G2R2R2LLS2 DT2U2V2W2 X2 Y2SY2Z2 A3 B3 C3PU P2 AAD3 A D3 C UUE3F3 L2G3 E3QS2 A S2 A H3H3AAI3D3 S2 I3S2 S2 S2S2S2 S2 F3F3J3 K3 L3 J3H2H2L S2 LM3M3N3N3O3O3 U S P3P3C3 Q3 L2L2R3R3S3S3T3T3I3I3 S2S2T2T2C3C3C3 U C3 UUU3U3Z2Z2V3 L2 V3V3C3C3W3W3T3 X3 T3 Y3 Z3Z3B2B2N3N3LLN2N2C C CUX3A4A4C3C3 F B4C4 V B4D4E X3 V D4X3X3D3D3RRC3C3C3 X3 X3 E4E4SSQQC3C3 F4G4 I3H4H4H4I4I4J4J C J4X3 J3 D3 C3EC3 D3 C3 C3 S C3 SC3C N3K4N3K4D3LC V3 LF3F3Q C3 Q C3 L4CCL4EE C3 D4D4E C3E3C2| EXPLANATORY | A |
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| Kamehameha First of the Hawaiian Islands conquered his | B |
| foes in a great battle driving them over the high mountain | C |
| peak known as Pali one of the famous scenic views of the | D |
| world and the goal of all visitors in Honolulu | E |
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| The Hula pronounced hoola was the national muscle and | F |
| abdominal dance of Hawaii and the late King Kalakua was its | G |
| enthusiastic patron The costume of the dancers was | H |
| composed chiefly of skirts of grass The Hula so attired | I |
| is now forbidden by law The Hula Kui is a modification of | J |
| the dance and exceedingly graceful | K |
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| Many charming young self supporting woman in Honolulu trace | L |
| their ancestry back to Kamehameha with great pride The | D |
| chant is a weird sing song which relates the conquests of | J |
| the race | L |
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| It is the custom in Honolulu to present guests at feasts and | F |
| festivals or departing visitors with long wreaths of | J |
| natural flowers and which are worn by men as well as | M |
| women about the head hat and neck These wreaths called | N |
| lais pronounced lays sometimes reach below the waist | O |
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| The flower sellers are one of the national features of | J |
| Honolulu | E |
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| Scene made to represent grounds at Hawaiian hotel Sort of | J |
| open cafe or pavilion with palms vines and tropic flowers | P |
| RALPH sitting alone with a dreamy air | Q |
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| Enter ETHEL in short travelling suit typical | K |
| American girl blonde and petite | R |
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| ETHEL | K |
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| Oh here you are Your sister and your mother | S |
| Commissioned me detective sleuth and spy | T |
| To find the disappearing son and brother | S |
| And tell him that the time is slipping by | T |
| Our boat will sail in just two hours you know | U |
| Dear Honolulu how I hate to go | U |
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| RALPH | V |
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| Don't mention it I shun the very thought | W |
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| ETHEL | K |
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| You see this is the sort of thing one hears | X |
| And don't believe until one sees the spot | Y |
| We left New York in snow up to its ears | Z |
| And now a Paradise the palm the rose | A2 |
| The Boaganvillia and the breath of summer | S |
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| RALPH | V |
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| I tell you Honolulu is a hummer | S |
| It pays for six long days upon the ocean | C |
| And those sad memories of a ship's queer motion | C |
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| ETHEL | K |
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| There's one thing though that's disappointed me | A |
| The much exploited Honolulu maid | B2 |
| I haven't seen a beauty in the town | C2 |
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| RALPH | V |
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| They're thick as ripe bananas on a tree | A |
| You have not been observing I'm afraid | B2 |
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| ETHEL shrugging her shoulders | P |
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| Oh well tastes differ I don't care for brown | C2 |
| At least for this pronounced Hawaiian shade | B2 |
| I really can't imagine how a man | D2 |
| Could love a girl dyed to a chronic tan | D2 |
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| RALPH | V |
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| Some one has said 'Love goes where it is sent ' | - |
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| ETHEL sadly | A |
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| I think that true one can not guide its bent | E2 |
| But I must go and will you come along | F2 |
| Your mother said to bring you | E |
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| RALPH | V |
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| Not quite yet | G2 |
| I'll wait until that bird completes its song | F2 |
| The last I'll hear till many a sun has set | G2 |
| Just tell the folks I'll meet them on the pier | H2 |
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| Exit ETHEL looking disappointed | I2 |
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| RALPH sitting down in a reverie | A |
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| A nice girl Ethel but by Jove it's queer | H2 |
| The way a fellow's stubborn mind will turn | J2 |
| To something that he should forget That face | L |
| I saw once on a San Francisco street | R |
| How well I do recall the time and place | L |
| 'A girl from Honolulu ' some one said | K2 |
| I wonder where she is now Married Dead | K2 |
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| A silent reverie for a moment Then speaks again | L2 |
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| I planned this trip with just one crazy thought | W |
| To look upon that strange girl's face once more | M2 |
| That is the luny project which has brought | W |
| The four of us to this idyllic shore | M2 |
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| Laughs and lights a cigar | N2 |
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| My scheme was worked with such consummate care | Q |
| That mother thinks SHE planned the whole affair | Q |
| Then she invited Ethel as her guest | O2 |
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| Silence for a moment | P2 |
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| Well sometimes mothers know just what is best | O2 |
| For wayward sons | Q2 |
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| And yet and yet and yet | G2 |
| Why is it one girl's face I can't forget | G2 |
| Why is it that I feel despondent hearted | R2 |
| In missing that fool hope for which I started | R2 |
| Four thousand miles is something of a chase | L |
| To run to cover one elusive face | L |
| And then to FAIL | S2 |
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| Reverie A chant is heard outside The man listens The | D |
| chant ceases and then a maiden slowly approaches calling out | T2 |
| her flower wares which she carries in a basket she wears | U2 |
| several lais herself on hat and neck She does not observe | V2 |
| the man at first | W2 |
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| FLOWER GIRL calls in a musical voice | X2 |
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| Lais lais royal lais beautiful flowers in bloom | Y2 |
| Colours of splendour fragrance so tender | S |
| Blossoms to brighten your room | Y2 |
| Lais lais royal lais who buys | Z2 |
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| RALPH leans forward and says aside | A3 |
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| Eve and the serpent meet in Paradise | B3 |
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| He moves forward as the maid enters the doorway | C3 |
| Recognition shows in both faces Then the maiden recovers | P |
| her self possession and starts to go | U |
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| RALPH with sudden boldness and excitement | P2 |
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| I'll buy you out in case you then are free | A |
| To stay awhile beneath this banyan tree | A |
| And tell me all about your lovely land | D3 |
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| FLOWER GIRL with dignity | A |
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| Your pardon sir I do not understand | D3 |
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| RALPH who seems drunk with exhilaration | C |
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| Oh well 'tis plain enough from realms of snow | U |
| I landed here some little time ago | U |
| A lonely orphan without kith or kin | E3 |
| I need a friend | F3 |
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| FLOWER GIRL gives him an indignant surprised glance Then | L2 |
| speaks with quiet sarcasm | G3 |
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| Sir they will take you in | E3 |
| On Hotel Street The Y M C A there | Q |
| Shelters all homeless youths within its pale | S2 |
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| RALPH shaking his head sadly | A |
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| They wouldn't take ME in I am from Yale | S2 |
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| GIRL with mock sympathy | A |
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| Oh that IS sad Because no skill or tact | H3 |
| You might employ could ever hide the fact | H3 |
| From all the world wherever you might be | A |
| Now Harvard Princeton Stanford men we see | A |
| And never know until they speak the name | I3 |
| But Yale it bears its brand | D3 |
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| RALPH reproachfully | S2 |
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| You're making game | I3 |
| Of me and of my College cruel girl | S2 |
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| Approaches her excitedly | S2 |
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| Come drop those flowers and let us have a whirl | S2 |
| I'll give you both the Yale Yell and the Boola | S2 |
| If you will dance for me your famous Hula | S2 |
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| GIRL drawing back haughtily | S2 |
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| I dance the Hula You mistake my friend | F3 |
| You heard my chant but did not comprehend | F3 |
| The meaning of it Hark while I repeat it | J3 |
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| Repeats the chant | K3 |
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| RALPH puzzled | L3 |
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| I'm sure there's nothing in the world can beat it | J3 |
| But er the language is a little queer | H2 |
| I did not quite catch all the words I fear | H2 |
| Besides I'm so distracted by your face | L |
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| GIRL proudly | S2 |
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| That chant relates the conquests of my race | L |
| Though I am poor and hawk about these lais | M3 |
| To earn my bread yet in the olden days | M3 |
| There was no prouder family on earth | N3 |
| Than mine But Polynesian pride of birth | N3 |
| Is quite beyond the white man's scope of brain | O3 |
| And so perchance I speak to you in vain | O3 |
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| Takes her flowers and starts to go | U |
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| RALPH intercepts her | S |
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| Great Scott but you are splendid when you're mad | P3 |
| Now please don't go I'm really not so bad | P3 |
| I don't mean half I say | C3 |
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| GIRL turns blazing eyes upon him | Q3 |
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| Oh all you men | L2 |
| Of pallid blood again and yet again | L2 |
| Have offered insults to our island races | R3 |
| I own we once were savage and the traces | R3 |
| Of those wild days remain but sir go back | S3 |
| A little way on YOUR ancestral track | S3 |
| And see what you will find A horde of bold | T3 |
| And lawless cut throats started many an old | T3 |
| And purse proud race and brutal strength became | I3 |
| The bloody groundwork for pretentious fame | I3 |
| When Might was Right If every royal tree | S2 |
| Were dug up by the roots the world would see | S2 |
| That common mud first mothered the poor sprout | T2 |
| Your race is higher than my own no doubt | T2 |
| Then shame upon you for the poor display | C3 |
| Of noble manhood that you make to day | C3 |
| Thinking each brown faced girl your lawful prey | C3 |
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| Turns her back upon him and starts to go | U |
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| RALPH pleadingly | C3 |
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| Oh say now let a fellow have a show | U |
| I never meant to rouse your anger so | U |
| I only meant I well you see the change | U3 |
| Of climate was so sudden and the strange | U3 |
| And gorgeous scenery and your glorious eyes | Z2 |
| Upset my brain But you have put me wise | Z2 |
| I own that I had heard | V3 |
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| Hesitates and GIRL breaks forth again | L2 |
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| Oh yes I know you heard | V3 |
| Wild tales of Honolulu and were stirred | V3 |
| With high ambitions to return to Yale | C3 |
| The envied hero of a wilder tale | C3 |
| You thought each maiden on this Isle perchance | W3 |
| Wore skirts of grass and danced the Hula dance | W3 |
| And gave her lips to any man for gold | T3 |
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| RALPH interrupting | X3 |
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| Oh 'pon my honour I was not so bold | T3 |
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| GIRL ignoring and with vehemence | Y3 |
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| You thought the old time licence still prevailed | Z3 |
| You did not know across the heavens had sailed | Z3 |
| A beautiful star in brilliancy arrayed | B2 |
| The SELF RESPECTING NEW HAWAIIAN MAID | B2 |
| Who prides herself upon her blood and birth | N3 |
| And holds her virtue at its priceless worth | N3 |
| And stands undaunted in her rightful place | L |
| Snow white of soul however brown of face | L |
| Warmer in blood than your white women are | N2 |
| And yet more moral in her life by far | N2 |
| Than many a leader in your halls of fashion | C |
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| RALPH gazing at her with admiration | C |
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| I vow I like to see you in a passion | C |
| Such royal rage Your forbear was I know | U |
| Kame a lili like kalico | X3 |
| Or some such name who got in that great tiff | A4 |
| And tumbled all his foes down off the cliff | A4 |
| I feel I'm lying with them in the valley | C3 |
| While you stand all triumphant on the Pali | C3 |
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| GIRL smiling and softened | F |
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| You mean Kamehameha First I'm sure | B4 |
| Yes I am of his line | C4 |
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| RALPH | V |
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| May it endure | B4 |
| Until the end of time for you are GREAT | D4 |
| The world needs women like you | E |
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| GIRL turns to go | X3 |
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| RALPH | V |
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| Oh now wait | D4 |
| I want some flowers please hang about my neck | X3 |
| A dozen lais and give me half a peck | X3 |
| Of nice bouquets then I will hire a band | D3 |
| And celebrate my entrance to your land | D3 |
| I'll dance the Hula up and down the street | R |
| And cry Aloha to each girl I meet | R |
| And if she frowns and calls me cad and churl | C3 |
| I'll shout Long Live the New Hawaiian Girl | C3 |
| Rah rah rah Yale Yale Yale | C3 |
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| A Hawaiian Band is heard approaching | X3 |
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| GIRL laughingly as she hangs lais about his neck | X3 |
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| Well there's your band and since you are so kind | E4 |
| To purchase all my flowers I've half a mind | E4 |
| To favour you with not the Hula sir | S |
| But something more refined and prettier | S |
| I'll teach it to you ask the band out there | Q |
| To play the Hula Kui dancing air | Q |
| Then follow all I do and copy me | C3 |
| This is the way it starts now one two three | C3 |
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| After the dance ends RALPH approaches the GIRL with tense | F4 |
| face and speaks with great seriousness | G4 |
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| Girl though I do not even know your name | I3 |
| Yet here I stand and offer you my own | H4 |
| It was for you I came for you alone | H4 |
| Across the half world I have never known | H4 |
| Forgetfulness since first your face I saw | I4 |
| In coming here I but obeyed Love's law | I4 |
| I thought it fancy passion or caprice | J4 |
| I know now it is LOVE | J |
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| FLOWER GIRL with emotion | C |
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| I pray you cease | J4 |
| You do not understand yourself go go | X3 |
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| Urges him towards exit | J3 |
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| RALPH seizing her hand | D3 |
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| I will not go until I hear you say | C3 |
| That you remember even as I do | E |
| That brief encounter on the street one day | C3 |
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| FLOWER GIRL turns her face away and tries to free her hand | D3 |
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| RALPH exultantly | C3 |
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| Oh it is FATE and Fate we must obey | C3 |
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| Takes ring from his finger | S |
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| Let the ship go but with my heart I stay | C3 |
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| Attempts to place ring on GIRL'S finger She wrenches her | S |
| hand free and stands with both hands behind her as she | C3 |
| speaks with suppressed emotion | C |
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| The heart of every Island girl on earth | N3 |
| I think hides one sweet dream and it is this | K4 |
| To one day meet a man of higher birth | N3 |
| To win his heart to feel his tender kiss | K4 |
| And sail with him to some far distant land | D3 |
| This too has been my dream wherein your face | L |
| Shone like a beacon | C |
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| Repels RALPH as he starts forward | V3 |
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| But I know your race | L |
| Too well too well I know how such dreams end | F3 |
| You could not claim me in your land my friend | F3 |
| For colour prejudice is rampant there | Q |
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| RALPH impetuously | C3 |
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| But I will stay for ever here I swear | Q |
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| FLOWER GIRL | C3 |
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| Nay do not swear you would but break the vow | L4 |
| As many another has Our tropic sun | C |
| Affects men like a fever when 'tis run | C |
| Then their delusions pass Oh leave me now | L4 |
| I hear the whistle of your ship adieu | E |
| Alohoa oie may God be with you | E |
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| Enter ETHEL hurriedly | C3 |
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| Come Ralph your mother and your sister wait | D4 |
| Quite frantic at the pier lest you be late | D4 |
| They sent me for you | E |
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| Exit RALPH with ETHEL he looks back and flings GIRL a wreath GIRL | C3 |
| smiles and sings Hawaiian song picks up the wreath and drops face in | E3 |
| her hands as Curtain goes down | C2 |
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