SONGS OF THE NEW MOTHERLAND.
No. 1. I've como to theo. sweet motherland, From o'er the billows wide, for thou dida't beckon me, and lo I I'm standing by thy Bide; I soe thee, thou are very fair, So young, and yot, I ween. There is not in the universe So sweot or fair a queen. Thy throno is on the Southorn Alps, Thy footstool is the eea. Thy robes aro woodland coronets, Tho forest and the lea; And Lke a goddess thou art decked In majos;y and pride; With graceful mien and royal Bhoen, A fair and lovdj brido. And in tho golden suHTise That gilds the orango bloom. Or in tho purple sunsets, Or in the evcuiDK gloom, Thou'rt ever fair and lovoly. With fragrant breath divino. God bless thoo, sweet Zcalandia, Fair motherland of mine! W. E. Wills.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 193, 22 August 1885, Page 5
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