• From “The Isles of the Amazons,” Part III.

    COME, lovers, come, forget your pains!
      I know upon this earth a spot
    Where clinking coins, that clank as chains
      Upon the souls of men, are not;
    Nor man is measured for his gains
    Of gold that stream with crimson stains.

    There snow-topped towers crush the clouds,
      And break the still...