Page:The Green Eye of the Yellow God.djvu/7

This page has been validated.
7

braided poor Carew

In the way that women do,

Though both her eyes were strangely hot and wet;

But she wouldnʼt take the stone, and Carew was left alone

With the jewel that heʼd chanced his life to get.


When the ball was at its height

On that still and tropic night,

She