Songs From The Southern Seas PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...and year by year That bundle of skins is growing. 'Tis clear That the Lord out of evil some good still takes; For he 's clearing this bush of the Dukite snakes. THE MONSTEE DIAMOND. Each virtuous act is a kernel sown That will grow to a goodly tree Shedding Us fruit when time has flown Down the gulf of eternity. THE MONSTER DIAMOND: A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OP WEST AUSTRALIA, 9LL have it, I tell you! Curse you!--there! '9 The long knife glittered, was sheathed, and was bare. The sawyer staggered and tripped and fell, And falling he uttered a frightened yell: His face to the sky, he shuddered and gasped, And tried to put from him the man he had grasped A moment before in the terrible strife. "I '11 have it, I tell you, or have your life! Where is it? 5? The sawyer grew weak, but still His brown face gleamed with a desperate will. "Where is it?" he heard, and the red knife's drip In his slayer's hand fell down on his lip. "Will you give it?" "Never!55 A curse, the knife Was raised and buried. Thus closed the life Of Samuel Jones, known as " Number Ten" On his Ticket-of-Leave; and of all the men In the Western Colony, bond or free, None had manlier heart or hand than he In digging a sawpit, while all alone, --For his mate was sleeping, --Sam struck a stone With the edge of the spade, and it gleamed like fire, And looked at Sam from its bed in the mire. Till he dropped, the spade and stooped and raised The wonderful stone that glittered and blazed As if it were mad at the spade's rude blow; But its blaze set the sawyer's heart aglow As he looked and trembled, then turned him round, And crept from the pit, and lay on the ground. Looking over the mould-heap at the camp Where his mate still slept. Then down to the swamp He ran with the stone, ...