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Night and beneath star blazoned summer skies	A
Behold the Spirit of the musky South	B
A creole with still burning languid eyes	A
Voluptuous limbs and incense breathing mouth	B
Swathed in spun gauze is she	C
From fibres of her own anana tree	C
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Within these sumptuous woods she lies at ease	D
By rich night breezes dewy cool caressed	E
'Twixt cypresses and slim palmetto trees	D
Like to the golden oriole's hanging nest	E
Her airy hammock swings	F
And through the dark her mocking bird yet sings	F
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How beautiful she is A tulip wreath	G
Twines round her shadowy free floating hair	H
Young weary passionate and sad as death	I
Dark visions haunt for her the vacant air	H
While movelessly she lies	A
With lithe lax folded hands and heavy eyes	A
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Full well knows she how wide and fair extend	J
Her groves bright flowered her tangled everglades	K
Majestic streams that indolently wend	J
Through lush savanna or dense forest shades	K
Where the brown buzzard flies	A
To broad bayou 'neath hazy golden skies	A
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Hers is the savage splendor of the swamp	L
With pomp of scarlet and of purple bloom	M
Where blow warm furtive breezes faint and damp	N
Strange insects whir and stalking bitterns boom	M
Where from stale waters dead	O
Oft looms the great jawed alligator's head	O
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Her wealth her beauty and the blight on these	D
Of all she is aware luxuriant woods	P
Fresh living sunlit in her dream she sees	D
And ever midst those verdant solitudes	D
The soldier's wooden cross	D
O'ergrown by creeping tendrils and rank moss	D
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Was her a dream of empire was it sin	Q
And is it well that all was borne in vain	R
She knows no more than one who slow doth win	Q
After fierce fever conscious life again	S
Too tired too weak too sad	T
By the new light to be stirred or glad	T
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From rich sea islands fringing her green shore	U
From broad plantations where swart freemen bend	J
Bronzed backs in willing labor from her store	U
Of golden fruit from stream from town ascend	J
Life currents of pure health	V
Her aims shall be subserved with boundless wealth	V
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Yet now how listless and how still she lies	D
Like some half savage dusky Indian queen	W
Rocked in her hammock 'neath her native skies	D
With the pathetic passive broken mien	W
Of one who sorely proved	X
Great souled hath suffered much and much hath loved	Y
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But look along the wide branched dewy glade	Z
Glimmers the dawn the light palmetto trees	D
And cypresses reissue from the shade	Z
And SHE hath wakened Through clear air she sees	D
The pledge the brightening ray	A2
And leaps from dreams to hail the coming day	A2

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