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arm perfumes like a breath from vine and treeDrift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes,Somewhere an _eukaleli_ thrills and criesAnd stabs with pain the night's brown savagery.And dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,Gleam like a woman's hair, stretch out, and rise;And new stars burn into the ancient skies,Over the murmurous soft Hawaian sea. And I recall, lose, grasp, forget again,And still remember, a tale I have heard, or knownAn empty tale, of idleness and pain,Of two that loved--or did not love--and oneWhose perplexed heart did evil, foolishly,A long while since, and by some other sea.
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