A TREE.
(By Dorothy Shaw, 85, Priaees St. Onehunga.) Oh. great and stately tree, So beautiful in youth or age, Birds make in thee their nest*, And shelter while the storms do rage. Oh! Nature's source of shade, How many weary travellers have thou Giv'n sweet, cool rest Oh, preserver of the glade. How beautiful thou art in Spring, When new leaves replace the old, And birds within thy branches sing, Of their new horn*, with, joy narftM
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 25
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78A TREE. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 25
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