Page:Poems, now first collected, Stedman, 1897.djvu/200

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THE CARIB SEA

Dread the wasp's swift punishment
And the chegoe's vengeance fell:
Well-defended,
Fairies sleep till day hath ended,—
Leave we Fern-Land and its spell.

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