Through the
Malay Archipelago.

BY
EMILY RICHINGS.

Author of
"Sir Walter's Wife," "In Chaucer's Maytime," &c.

LONDON:
HENRY J. DRANE, LIMITED,
Danegeld House, 82a, Farringdon Street, E.C.

O hundred shores of happy climes!
How swiftly streamed ye by the bark!
At times the whole sea burned—at times
With wakes of fire we tore the dark.
New stars all night above the brim
Of waters lightened into view;
They climbed as quickly, for the rim
Changed every moment as we flew.
We came to warmer waves, and deep
Across the boundless East we drove,
Where those long swells of breaker sweep
The nutmeg rocks, and isles of clove.
For one fair Vision ever fled
Down the waste waters day and night,
And still we followed where she led,
In hope to gain upon her flight.