MACMILLAN AND CO.

1878.

[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.]

LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL.

THE TROPICS.

Land of the Sun! where joyous green-robed Spring

And leaf-crowned Summer deck the Earth for ever;

No Winter stern their sweet embrace to sever

And numb to silence every living thing,

But bird and insect ever on the wing,