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DON BLANDING
"Hawaii Says Aloha"

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1955
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 160 pages

Poetry, Illustrations (some in color) & Decorations by Don Blanding

Dedication:
The sweetest leis
in all our Isles
Are miles and miles
and miles of smiles.

Contents:

Miles of Smiles
Hawaii
What is Hawaii
Hawaiian Driftwood
Aloha Oe
Shadows of Beauty
Mokihana Lei
Hawaii
Leaves from My Grass-House
Dwellers in Far Islands
An Island of Your Own
To Leilehua
Hula Dancers
Luau
At a Luau, Hawaiian Feast
Diamond Head
Glamour's Gone
How to Know Hawaii
Morning in a Honolulu Garden
Poetic Justice
Homesick for Kona
Beauty
Wind-Harp Pool
The Kahuna Speaks to a White Man
The Heiau on the Hill
Kona Holiday
Sea Butterflies
King Coral's Green-Blue Realm
Waikiki Skin-Game
Camera Angle, Waikiki Beach
Blood on Orchids
Things Forgotten
The Birth of June
Leis... For Remembrance
Lei Sellers
White Ginger Lei
Tutu
Aunty Pinau
Baby Street
Footsteps
The Blind Chanter
Chant to Pele
Song of the South Seas
Tropical Sunset
Aloha House
Chinese Store
Chinese Shawls
Chinese Music
The Candlemaker
Jewel-Trees
Ylang-Ylang Flowers
Beachcomber
Isle of Pua-Loa
From a Javanese Batik
Secret Place
Prayer of the Drifting Cocoanut
Out There
Advice to Bachelors
Why Do I Return
Last Night
My Hawaiian Garden
This Nagging Urge
Brocade
Mele of Yesterday's Men
Flyer's Halo
Hawaiian Panaroma
Dawn in the Islands
Koa Trees in a Mist
Poinciana Regia Tree
Night-Blooming Cereus
Via "Coconut Wireless"
Poi
Purple Bougainvillea Vine
Winged Journey
Gardenia Lei
Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill
Sunset Over Waianae Mountains
Hearts-On-A-String
Island Perfumes
At. St. Clement's Church
Letter of Inquiry
Flowers of the Rainbow
Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun
Moon Rainbow
Flower Girl
Black Point
Kapakahi
Honolulu Curry
To Granny Harris
Red Torch Ginger
Lei Day
Hawaiian June
Night Flowers of the Tropics
Liquid Sunshine
Ala Moana
To One Whom I Called Awa Puhi
Kilauea
Prologue to Beauty
Mat Weaver
Chant of the Canoe
Legend of the Palm Tree
My Hawaii
And You?
Ghost Drums
Surf Riders
Man of Punaluu
Net Menders
Black Sands of Kaimu
Shadows of Palm Fronds
Sugar
Sailing Ship, Sailing
Diamond Head
Canoe and Sea-Bird
The Net
Tryst
At the End of Your Visit
Fragment
Homesick for the Fair Islands
Rising Moon
Aloha

Notes:
Wind-Harp Pool was written for Helen.
Leis... For Remembrance was written for Leatrice Joy.
Tropical Sunset was written from Kimo Wilder's House on Tantalus.
Night-Blooming Cereus was written for Lillian Wilder.
Winged Journey was written for the men of the Hawaii Clipper.
Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun was written for Maitland and Hegenberger.
Lei Day is a holiday which was originated by Don Blanding in 1928.
Tryst was written for Hado.

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