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Title: Wine-Dark Seas and Tropic Skies: Reminiscences and a Romance of the South Seas

Author: A. Safroni-Middleton

Release date: May 17, 2019 [eBook #59530]

Language: English

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WINE-DARK SEAS AND TROPIC SKIES

Lagoon Scene, Apia

WINE-DARK SEAS

AND

TROPIC SKIES

REMINISCENCES AND A ROMANCE OF

THE SOUTH SEAS

A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON

❦

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1918

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED

EDINBURGH

I dedicate this book to you,
To your wild songs and laughter,
And to the half-remembered light
Here in my dreams years after;
To you, the men who sailed with me
Beyond each far sky-line,
And my dead self—the boy I knew
In days of auld lang syne.