<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476296" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hawaiian</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimes<br>With Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymes<br>With places bare upon Pacific mountains,<br>With spaces empty in the minds of men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sandalwood!<br>The Kings of Hawaii call out their men,<br>The men go up the mountains in files;<br>Hands that knew only the stone axe now wield the iron axe:<br>The sandalwood trees go down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More sandalwood is called for:<br>The men who hunt the whale will buy sandalwood;<br>The Kings would change canoes for ships.<br>Men come down from the mountains carrying sandalwood on their backs;<br>More and more men are levied;<br>They go up the mountains in files; they leave their taropatches so that famine comes down on the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this sandalwood grows upon other trees, a parasite;<br>It needs a growing thing to grow upon;<br>Its seed and its soil are not enough for it!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too greedy are the Kings;<br>Too eager are the men who hunt the whale to sail to<br>Canton with fragrant wood to make shrines for the<br>Buddhas;<br>Too sharp is the iron axe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing will ever bring together again<br>The spores and the alien sap that nourished them,<br>The trees and the trees they would plant themselves<br>upon:<br>Like the myths of peoples,<br>Like the faiths of peoples,<br>Like the speech of peoples,<br>Like the ancient creation chants,<br>The sandalwood is gone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fragrance in shrines<br>But the trees will never live again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Padraic+Colum">Padraic Colum</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476296" data-title="Hawaiian de Padraic Colum" data-description="SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimes With Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymes With places bare upon Pacific mountains, With spaces empty in the minds of men. Sandalwood! The Kings of Hawaii call out their men, The men go up the mount..."></div> </div> </div>

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