"Under her old pink gateways, where Time a moment turns, Where hang the orange lanterns and the red hibiscus burns, Live the harmless merry lizards, quicksilver in the sun, Or still as any image with their shadow on a stone."
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Bliss Carman, "White Nassau", A Winter Holiday (1899)
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