1888.

The islands about which this legend is told are known as Jezírat Darzé and Jezírat Samhé, east of Cape Gardafui—one high and the other low.

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’Tis said that a noble youth of old

Was to his native village lost,

And to his home, and agèd sire;

For he had wander’d (it is told)

Where, pinnacled in eternal frost,

Apollo leads his awful Choir.

Awful, for nought of human warms

The agony of their song sublime,

Which like the breath of ice is given

Ascending in vapour from all forms,

Where gods in clear alternate chime

Reveal their mystery-thoughts to Heaven.

Nor in those regions of windless cold

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