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OFF SAN SALVADOR by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: IT LAY TO WESTWARD - AS OF OLD
Last Line: LATE WELCOMED TO A STRANGER-LAND.
Subject(s): SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR;
It lay to westward -- as of old,
An emerald bar across the gold
Of sunset -- whence a vision grand
First beckoned to the stranger-land.

And on our deck, uncoffined, lay
A child, whose spirit far away
The wafture of an angel hand
Late welcomed to a stranger-land.



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