19023 "Take It for All in All" 



if you receive it; then I shall know that this letter has reached 

 you. 



Good-bye. May all of you who were here live. Convey my 

 love to your son and to Jack, and to all of you. May you be 

 blest, and may this letter reach you. This is the end of my 

 letter. Good-bye. May you live. 

 I am 



Sa'laotoga, 



Samoan Landsman (U. S. Navy) 

 Tutuila, Colony of the 

 United States of America 



In the original a part of the first paragraph reads 

 as follows: 



Tasmaitai e na on faia lesi tusi ma le faafetai tete atu ia te A jew 

 oe asa ate mea alafa na e sansia me au i lao lesei na on mana ^ nfs f 

 ua ou talia ma le matau faafetai ma le fiafia tele ia te oe sa on amoan 

 matua faalia foi lou fiafia i le olii i le alii Kavasa sili losa tale 

 tua ma Taupou e taalua na etc. 



Following our experiences in Tutuila and partly 

 suggested by Stevenson's "Under the wide and 

 starry sky," I wrote for myself a bit of verse which I 

 afterward used in dedicating "The Call of the 

 Twentieth Century" to Dr. Stillman: 



A darkening sky and a whitening sea, 



And a wind in the palm trees tall; 

 Soon or late comes the call for me, 

 Down from the mountain or up from the sea, 



Then let me lie where I fall. 



And a friend may write, for friends there be, 



On a stone from the dark sea wall, 

 "Jungle and town and reef and sea, 

 I have loved God's earth, and God's earth loved me, 



Take it for all in all!" 



To the commandant as an official deeply con- 

 cerned with the native welfare, my party was able 



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