The Isle of Palms

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Excerpt from The Isle of Palms: Adventures While Wrecking for Gold, Encounter With a Mad Whale, Battle With a Devil-Fish, Fish, and Capture of a Mermaid The Beautiful Island. There's an Isle I love in the Southland seas, Where the palm waves tall in the trade-wind breeze, Where the now ring vines leap aloft, on high, Like appealing hands reaching up to the sky. There, the Sabbath-bells are the golden fruit, As dumb in their chimes as the silent lute, There, the orange blossoms their stars unfold, And the jasmine gleams with its stars of gold. E'en the sea below, - in its coral caves, - Has its Mermaids fair in the azure waves, They sing on the shore to the summer moon, With the voice of a lute in its sweetest tune. 'Tis an Isle of beauty! Spirits guard the place, And the wing-breeze of spirits fan the face! There the sea-worn mariner, bowed with care, - Finds an ear-divine to receive his pray'r. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.