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Like me, you surely know about the history of our island You surely know of the time when it was being colonized When it was still a dark and green forest With dodos making everywhere their careless nests If like me, you are also a dreamer, then Do let yourself rise Like me do imagine the time of long ago When the western world was just beginning to land here Imagine the beauty then, the freshness of the island Trees, dark and deep, ebonies Rivers, seas, birds of all kinds Plantations everywhere, animals of the most gentle kind I am sure, then, the time was right for love Maidens dressed in lovely dresses Would waltz at the hands of handsome charmers Whether under the gleam of the silver moon, or on the crystal clear beach Imagine kisses shared and stolen Imagine love as yet being forbidden Imagine the beauty of the surroundings The lovely parties done on the cool nights Imagine the toils the first people had to go through When they did start to build everything When they did choose to place the foundation stone When they did fight off the first horrible cyclone Maybe I was here living as a fresh maiden Newly snatched from my homeland Having been brought to the land of burden Meeting then, here, the love of my life Making then of my island, the worldly paradise Making here, like the dodos, my nest, my prize Well of all this I can only allow myself to dream A dream of love it is, in a most ancient setting!
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