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Amid those marshy woodlands far and wide Which spread beyond the soaring vulture's eye, There grew on Empalado's southern side Groves of that tree whose leaves adust supply The Spaniards with their daily luxury; A beverage whose salubrious use obtains Thro' many a land of mines and slavery, Even over all La Plata's sea-like plains, And Chili's mountain realm, and proud Peru's domains.