KANAKA MOTHER-GOOSEThe sea is a dress for your nakedness,A loin-cloth blue and green,With fishes for embroidery—The tiny ones, I mean.
NATIVE DAPHNE
If you would love a maiden for her eyes,Go to the silver shy kukui tree,A maiden fair forever in disguiseLest men should spoil her of her chastity:(Men come as friends but go as guilty thieves).For your hot forehead gather her cool leaves—Sit in her lap, and listen as she stirsGreen meditations that alone are hers.And for you few who love a woman's soulKukui oil will make an aureole.
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