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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: And you selected:- your husband, vainly striving, to fall
Broken between these hands:- yourself to be severed from all,
The places, the people, you love - home, kindred, and clan -
And to dwell in a desert and bear the babes of a kinless man."
NOTES TO THE SONG OF RAHERO
INTRODUCTION. - This tale, of which I have not consciously
changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is
highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas,
the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in
Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived.
I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as
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