O TELL me that in Fijian, darling,
In Fijian, tell me that:
They bring coffee in a galley,
In fief of love forbad.
In the full moon, names wide apart,
They ban the indigo
And let triumph the nard.
In Fijian, tell me that.
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The world may never have seen her original handwriting, if her skill was taken for supernatural. Feel welcome to Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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