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Sonnet.--Baugmaree.

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A sea of foliage girds our garden round,     But not a sea of dull unvaried green,     Sharp contrasts of all colours here are seen;     The light-green graceful tamarinds abound     Amid the mangoe clumps of green profound,     And palms arise, like pillars gray, between;     And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean,     Red,--red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.     But nothing can be lovelier than the ranges     Of bamboos to the eastward, when the moon     Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes     Into a cup of silver. One might swoon     Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze     On a primeval Eden, in amaze.

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