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Found Poetry: The Trial Against the Last Queen of Hawaii

She was bright, but too ambitious.

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Found Poetry: The Trial Against the Last Queen of Hawaii
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Found Poetry based on correspondence between the U.S government and the last reigning queen of Hawaii.



She was bright but too

ambitious,

She may reign but not rule.

No stable

government can be achieved under the queen.


For a queen,

is powerless without a people to rule over.

Savage Queen.

She was supposed to have been behind it all,

the woman who made Hawaii politically what it became had merely said “All right; I will go.”

made a prisoner

There must have been a treason

and it must have been within her knowledge

to make it possible

for her to become amenable.


Then she is guilty of treason.

She spoke in Hawaiian.

The residents of these islands,

a conspiracy far reaching wide,

and in the nature of things it extended over months,

but with caution that was only

equaled by their love and affection.

God knows

what would have happened if the lady

really turned her mind

to war,

instead of for peace.


It is well put to the commission, that she is a woman.

that much that is in her statement will be passed by.

Her majesty means well

but she unfortunately,

is a woman,

and in a position never ordained from the creation

for other than a man,

or one of masculine nature.


To be held at the executive building as a military prisoner.

It is not likely this will continue five years.

She gave no manifestation of excitement, surprise or emotion of any sort.

The lady was about to arise,

to hear her sentence read but remained,

seated at the suggestion,

by the land of the free.

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