NEW ZEALAND VERSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALAND VERSE.

•A .TRIBUTE. Discoverer. You Btood where we , are . standing, '.' . ... Sea. at your feet, and riding in the bay The trusty ship that came at your commanding. ■• _ '• make these isles our heritage to-day. The same wide ocean crashes in with . thunder, - ';■ Combing the crags with sullen roar and :•'■■.:- .hiss,.. ... ' :■-; V" "*'• ' „ ' ' ,' lushing each pointed islet, and. we wonder How you could leave the Yorkshire moors for this.. :•.'. For us it was. Wc who would follow after You braved great perils and the raging '-.-foam.. '. ■-".'■■'"' •' ... For'us who came all care-free and with • You turned away from.Cleveland's woods and home. '■■■• :■.,'-• Exchanged the ■; woodlands and the moorland heather ■ '-:,' For" red pohutukawa, spreading fern, And:: star-eyed ti-trce, and ;we , wonder • whether '*' Your brave heart sighed with longing to -;.:■'.., return..;- ■■■'■'' .'■ ■ And we..who stand ..here in .this blue .November'- "'.-':• •' -.' ■. '■ '-' Pay you' our .homage, .conscious of our For in the'minute's remember, Thisis our tribute. We do not 'orget. Bay. :.'. —RUTHIN. : *dh 9, I.TG9. Captain' Cook lauded at Mercury Bay,; New Zealand, to obleWe the. transit of Mercury. -Here-the English colours were displayed possession .taken ;in .tie. -;aanie,„of ■Kins George 111. ;■•