Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — Rupert Brooke In Fiji. [ARTICLE]

Rupert Brooke In Fiji.

Fiji in moonlight is like nothing else in this world. . . . It’s all dim colors and all scents. And here, where it’s high up, the Ntfst fantastically shaped mountains in the world tower up all round, and little silver clouds and wisps of mist run bleating up and down the valleys and hillsides like lambs looking for their mother.There’s only one thing on earth as beautiful; and that’s Samoa by moonlight. ‘That’s utterly different, merely heaven, sheer loveliness. You He on a mat in a codl Samoan hut, and look out on the white sand under the high palms, and a gentle sea, and the black line of the reef a mile out, and moonlight over everything, floods and floods of It, not sticky, like Honolulu moonlight, not to be eaten with a spoon,'but flat and abundant, such that you could slice thin golden-white shavings off It, as off cheese. ... . .—From “Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir.”