Oh the road to Mandalay Where the flyin'-fishes play An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
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Mandalay has its name; the falling cadence of the lovely word has gathered about itself the chiaroscuro of romance.
Tags: name, falling, cadence, lovely, word, gathered, chiaroscuro, romance
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: “Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!”
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