cane's

Updated: March 31, 2026

Of what avail the verdure of thy hills, The purple bloom thy coffee-plain displays; The cane's luxuriant growth, whose culture fills More graves than famine, or the sword finds ways To glut with victims calmly as it slays?

John Greenleaf Whittier - Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI.,: The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches