Travels and Adventures in South and Central America
FIRST SERIES:
BY
DON RAMON PAEZ.
“NIHIL ARDUUM MORTALIBUS.”
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., 654 BROADWAY.
1868.
“Oh! it is the land where brightest hues
Gild sunset skies and glow in morning dews
Where flowers the fairest ever seem to bloom,
Of the world’s empire, to adorn the tomb.
Where blandest breezes on elastic wing,
Gladness and vigor to the bosom bring;
Where hang at once, within thy sunny bowers,
On citron trees, the fruitage and the flowers;
Where hearts are ardent as the sun’s they feel,
And buoyant as the gales that o’er them steal;
Where maiden’s love as close, as sweet will twine,
As cling the tendrils of their native vine;
Where the deep lustre of soft beauty’s eye
Transcends the brightness of its own clear sky.”
Godfrey’s “Cordelia.”
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
RAMON PAEZ.
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
TO
MORRIS KETCHUM, ESQ.,
THE
KIND AND CONSTANT FRIEND
TO THE
EXILED AUTHOR.