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    Out of the gloom and the grit and the grey
    out of the fog and the bold
    you shall come to a land where the peacocks play
    in a garden of green and gold
    where big blue butterflies haunt the glades
    and the snow white egret dreams
    where rubies are found by nut brown maids
    wading in orange streams


    I lived in Burma approx 1953 and when I came to leave a friend wrote the above verse in my autograph book.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thank you
    Heather.

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