Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HONOLII: 1894, by PHILIP H. DODGE


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HONOLII: 1894, by                    
First Line: On banks of honolii
Last Line: I would be as full of peace as honolii.
Subject(s): Hawaii


On banks of Honolii,
Where the waters reach the sea,
You may hear the gentle dash
In a lazy, foaming plash,
Of the waves that greet the waters flowing free.

And the stream whose water beats
Over the blackened rocks repeats,
Past the sharp and leafy turn
Of the greenery and fern,
Happy murmurs as the ocean tide it meets.

On the margin of the shore
Where the ferry crossed of yore,
In a cottage mid the green
Still the boatman may be seen,
But the days of the old ferry are no more.

As the boatman's work is done,
And the stream its course has run,
You will find them side by side
On the borders of the tide,
At the rising and the setting of the sun.

When from labors I am free
And is reached the open sea,
When the winding way is past
And the tide is gained at last,
I would be as full of peace as Honolii.





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