/// Herman Melville’s first book was Typee,
a memoir of his first time at sea.
He encountered a girl,
a well-formed native pearl,
known as Fayaway, guileless and free.
/// She was, on one occasion, allowed
to stand up in a boat, tall and proud.
The loin-cloth she would wear
she now waved in the air
like a sail and no longer a shroud.
/// Herman Melville’s first book was Typee,
a memoir of his first time at sea.
He encountered a girl,
a well-formed native pearl,
known as Fayaway, guileless and free.
/// She was, on one occasion, allowed
to stand up in a boat, tall and proud.
The loin-cloth she would wear
she now waved in the air
like a sail and no longer a shroud.