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THE TROPICS OF NEW YORK

Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root     Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,     Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,

Sat in the window, bringing memories     of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills, And dewy dawns, and mystical skies     In benediction over nun-like [...]