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Lapp'd in blue Pacific waters lies an isle of green and gold	A
A garden of enchantment such as Eden was of old	A
And the innocent inhabitants pure children of the sun	B
Resembled those of Eden too in more respects than one	B
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But included in its list of charms this peaceful isle possessed	C
A feature that seemed rather out of keeping with the rest	C
A huge volcano frowned above palm grove and taropatch	D
That ev'n for Krakatoa might have proved an equal match	D
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Might have proved I say advis dly for ages now had past	E
Since this passion worn volcano in a fit had breathed its last	E
Now flowery vegetation draped its shoulders like a shawl	F
Only the sullen cone stood unapparelled over all	F
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To this happy bower of innocence this Island of the Blest	C
Came two Melbourne Presbyterians no matter on what quest	C
Leading men in Church and Market always found within the ring	G
John McTaggart William Wallace Agents for for everything	G
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How glowed their weary hearts before the beauty of the scene	H
The palm groves the acacia groves and all the varied green	H
How swelled their souls with sentiment when swarming from their huts	I
Oame the simple natives wooing them with pigs and cocoa nuts	I
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Eh man but this is sweet said John and wiped away a tear	J
It is good for us I say with the apostle to be here	K
The islands are God's handiwork their beauties are His own	L
And Weelyum man there should be lots of sulphur in that cone	L
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These natives are a guileless folk as we can well discern	M
But how to make gunpowder is a thing they yet may learn	M
Now gunpowder leads to homicides and other sinful scenes	N
And I feel it is our duty to deprive them of the means	N
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So lest some flagitious traders should come fossicking about	O
This very day we'll purchase that volcano out and out	O
Lest guilt should stain these blameless souls we'll form a Sulphur Co	P
And William though a silent man replied to him Juist so	P
Then they summoned their interpreter and made their wishes known	L
And before the day was over that volcano was their own	L
And the chiefs were paid the price in costly axes hooks and knives	Q
While invaluable necklaces were showered upon their wives	Q
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But not before McTaggart had impressed the native mind	R
With a solemn deed of transfer of a strictly legal kind	R
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Which Scripture fraught as was supposed with threats and terrors dark	S
Was attested by the signature of Na Galoo His Mark	S
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Then home they sailed nor thought again for many and many a day	T
Of their potential riches in that island far away	T
They had other fish to fry and other irons in the fire	U
And success upon success but seemed to multiply desire	U
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But at length there came a season when their wealth developed wings	V
And their hearts grew sad within them at the general look of things	V
But most of all they sorrowed at the worldliness and pride	W
Of the smarter men who bested them and hustled them aside	W
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Said McTaggart Let us quit this sordid sphere and for a while	X
Let us bathe our souls in innocence in yon sequestered isle	X
The aims of men are vanity life's but a fleeting show	P
And the Argus says that sulphur's up And William said Juist so	P
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So they raised and raised with credit all the necessary plant	Y
Nor forgot amid their haste that solemn league and covenant	Z
And thus and thus it came to pass ere many days had fled	A2
That the island lay before them and the grey cone towered o'erhead	A2
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But where where were the simple folk that greeted them of yore	B2
And who were these red shirted swells that met them on the shore	B2
And covered them with muskets of a fashion obsolete	A2
But possibly still lethal if discharged at twenty feet	A2
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Alas too soon they gathered from their semi English speech	D
That the sixty three Kanaka bucks who blocked them on the beach	D
Were time expired Returns enlightened men who not in vain	C2
Had spent the intervening years in Queensland trashing cane	C2
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You come take solfa cried a Chief who recognised the two	D2
Flenchman Comp'ny buy him solfa Solfa no belonga you	D2
We sell him Comp'ny thing man call in Queensland mineral lease	E2
And sixty three Kanaka smiles broke up the evening peace	E2
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Then McTaggart white with godly ire yet calm in sense of right	A2
Drew forth the sacred covenant and spread it to the light	A2
I bought your hill entire he said the whole volcano's mine	F2
But the Chieftain took the document and read it line by line	F2
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Read it word by word and line by line date signature and all	F
As one who fain would do the right although the heaven's should fall	F
Then delivered this decision Hill belonga you all right	A2
But paper no say solfa Flenchman buy him that Goo' night	A2
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Is this the land McTaggart cried where we had fondly thought	A2
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To bathe our souls in innocence and bag what we had bought	A2
Sawtan hath made this isle his own Arise and let us go	P
Weelyum Progress is a curse a curse And William said Juist so	P

James Brunton Stephens

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