"LAND OF OUR LOVE."

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 7

"LAND OF OUR LOVE."

TO THE EDITOR OP mjj PaU33 Sir, —I was impressed by the loss < an .opportunity to-day. How appropr ate and encouraging it would hav been after bis Excellency's tribute t the memory of the discoverer of Me' Zealand, if wo had all joined in sing ing a song of.--New Zealand. I though of the enclosed words which Miss Jessi Mackay wrote for the festival for th encouragement of New Zealand musi in 1918. On that occasion the son was sung by 200 scholars from th Christchurch Girls' High School.Yours, etc., NEW ZEALANDER. August 10th, 1932. The copy of Miss Mackay's verse enclosed reads as follows: LAND OF OUR LOVE. Xosv God bo with you in the afiortimi Land of our love: Mow Zealand of th freel Where is the height so high you: cannc climb? Where is the deep—our lady of the sea— Where is the deep your children will nc dare, In flood, in fire, in peril measureless, That gold of all achieving you may wear In azure glory of thy loneliness J For God was with yon in the morning tide P«arl of the Alp! "Warm emerald o woods He took to crown you lor the ocean's bride j And breathed into your airy solitudes The manful sou! that will not break o bow. The mother-soul that, caring, slumber not; Th» soul of youth, so glad and young tha how The angels sang it has not yet forgot. Now may the Lord of morn and eventide Be with you to the last days to be! Our Island queen 1 The peerless and th< bride. The young, young bride of the unagin; seal Eternal rislon ;n your raptured eye, - Eternal youth your lerol brows above! Star of the deep I a light that will no die! Shine and abide, New Zealand of ou: love!