TRINIDAD: IËRE, LAND OF THE HUMMING BIRD
By Allister Macmillan
Those who eat the cascadura will, the native legend says,
Wheresoever they may wander, end in Trinidad their days.
And this lovely fragrant island, with its forest hills sublime,
Well might be the smiling Eden pictured in the Book divine.
Cocoa woods with scarlet glory of the stately Immortelles,
Waterfalls and fertile valleys, precipices, fairy dells,
Rills and rivers, green savannahs, fruits and flowers and odours rich,
Waving sugar cane plantations and the wondrous lake of pitch.
Oh! the Bocas at the daybreak – how can one describe that scene!
Or the little emerald islands with the sapphire sea between!
Matchless country of Iere, fairer none could ever wish.
Can you wonder at the legend of the cascadura fish ?
Source: History of the West Indies by Allister Macmillan, Nelson’s West Indian Readers, Compiled by JC Cutteridge, Book III, Lesson 9, Pg 42,43 © 1984 Nelson Caribbean.
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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.
Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.
Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare
Trinidad : Iëre, Land of the Humming Bird [Poem]
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3 comments:
Very nice remember it from primary school pls send
At present look up poem for my little daughter.mom told her the story and bought a one way ticket home.she told the immigration when ask how long she staying she said those who eat the cascadura will...
Love this story! Wish I could have seen the reaction of the immigration officer.
Blessings,
Guanaguanare
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