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TALE OF PARAGUAY.

CANTO III.

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Amid those marshy woodlands far and wide  Which spread beyond the soaring vulture's eye,  There grew on Empalado's southern side  Groves of that tree whose leaves adust supply  The Spaniards with their daily luxury;  A beverage whose salubrious use obtains  Thro' many a land of mines and slavery,  Even over all La Plata's sea-like plains, And Chili's mountain realm, and proud Peru's domains.