Conversation Piece
‘'QH Sew Zealanders' capital city, As I stand on the brow of thy hill My thoughts wander back, to the early days; Please tell me of them, if you will.
“I’ll whisper of when I was covered in bush, And, but a bay was I then. When soon, great canoes sailed onto my shores, •• All crowded with fierce-loolring men. They gathered the flowers from my forests, They hunted and killed beast and bird, And my valleys were no longer silent, For their chants and fierce war cries were heard.
The white men were next to arrive here, And civilization they brought— Of buildings and roads I’d not heard of before, All these things, to the Maoris they taught. And though they fought many a battle On the brow of the hill where you stand. They made me. the capital city of this Country of yours—New Zealand.” —Original by Toe Dancer (14), Johnsonville,
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 16
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154Conversation Piece Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 16
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