A PRIVATE EXHIBITION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 18

A PRIVATE EXHIBITION.

Once there was a lonely Desert, Very desolate and grey, And the Sky was sorry for him, j So she blossomed twice a day, v At the sunrise and the sunset, To a thousand tints of rose, Saffron, primrose, orange, beryl, Jade and turquoise, amber, crimson, Changing as an opal glows.

And moreover, every even i’ite In her charity she hung Jewels on her robe's blue velvet, Showers of silver fire, more splendid Stars than ever poet sung— And no other saw this glory But the Wilderness alone, Anri one single little lizard, One diminutive smug lizard. Dwelling there beneath a stone. This small person watched the sunsets Sometimes from liis private grot, But he much preferred the noontide, When the great Sky blazed whitehot. Poking out his head at sunrise He would think complacently "She is really rather thoughtful (After all, I uever asked her) To make all this show for.mel"