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Heather Turner
01-24-2011, 08:31 AM
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.

Silas Thorne
05-30-2012, 09:09 PM
http://www.orchidbooks.com/cldi.html

'Songs of a Desert Optimist: Poems of Burma' by J. M. Symns (see near the bottom of the page)