The Kings of the Reefs a Poem in One Hundred And Seventeen Cantos
The Kings of the Reefs a Poem in One Hundred And Seventeen Cantos
Jesse Carey
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" If you wait a little longer, " Said he to his eager hearers. Though his heart grew sick within him, " You shall see those mighty vessels Come from Britain's ports to fetch me. ' Thus he sought with his importance To impress the fickle people, Lest perchance they should despise him. At the tales he told they wondered More and more with greater wonder. Till the Nation's Storymonger, Jealous, lest he might be beaten In the work of story-telling, Tossed his head and hinted broadly That however bi...g the ships were In the white man's mighty thinking, They were simply just as nothing When compared with ships of Viti ; Only like the flying fishes By the whale's enormous body. The Kings of the Reefs. Yi Hearing which the chief, recovered From the charm of foreign stories, By Ndauvosa's pride of country. By his love of Viti's honour, Spake and praised the nation's minstrel, Told him to unrol his story Of the great canoe of heroes. Then the Talker, much elated, Clapped his hands with servile reverence, Said, in answer to his chieftain : " Heroes !
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