The Drum Wave Island And Other Verses of the China Coast
The Drum Wave Island And Other Verses of the China Coast
B N
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Of Eighteen Provinces remains not one. * Ah ! old Amoy, and ah ! my Drum Wave City Nestling beneath the Sun's great rock and shrine, (3) What hopes were cherished there ; oh, pity, pity, Those hopes were Ming's, and all your strength was mine. (1) Koxinga, after finally leaving Amoy, where he had held out for the Ming cause against the invading Manchus, and which he used a> his base in the last loyal Province of Hokkien ; drove the Dutch out of Formosa, and established himself as King. He was m...editating an attack on Peking, using this island as his base, when he died. The words below are supposed to have been his last. (Davidson's Formosa. ') (2) The Lovely Island is Formosa, so called by the Dutch. (3) Koxinga built a city on Kolongsu, beneath the Inscription Rock. KOXINGA, 1662 ( continued}. f For now what use the day when Victory brightened Our failing hearts, and shone on every side, When through the gathering clouds one clear ray lightened, And Hokkien roared applause that Shunti died ?
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