<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</SPAN></span></p>
<div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle">WAIKIKI</span></div>
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<span class="i0">Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree<br/></span>
<span class="i1">Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes,<br/></span>
<span class="i1">Somewhere an <i>eukaleli</i> thrills and cries<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And stabs with pain the night's brown savagery.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,<br/></span>
<span class="i1">Gleam like a woman's hair, stretch out, and rise;<br/></span>
<span class="i1">And new stars burn into the ancient skies,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Over the murmurous soft Hawaian sea.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">And I recall, lose, grasp, forget again,<br/></span>
<span class="i1">And still remember, a tale I have heard, or known<br/></span>
<span class="i0">An empty tale, of idleness and pain,<br/></span>
<span class="i1">Of two that loved—or did not love—and one<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Whose perplexed heart did evil, foolishly,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">A long while since, and by some other sea.<br/></span></div>
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<div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle4"><span class="smcap">Waikiki</span>, 1913</span></div>
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