MY KINGDOM.
Down by a shining water well i found a very little defl. No higher than my head. The heather and the gorse about In aimmer bloom were coming out, Some yellow and some red. I called the little pool a sea; The little hills were big to me; For I. am very smai’l. I made a. boat, I made a town, I searched the caverns up and down, And named them one and all l . And all about wa.s mine, I said, The little sparrows overhead, The little minnows, too. This' was the world and I was king; For me the bees came by to sing, For me the swallows flew. I prayed, there were no deeper seas, Nor anv wider plains than these. Nor other kings than me. At last I heard my brother oaf Out fro am the house at evenfail. To call me home to tea. ; And I must rise and leave my dell, And leave my dampled water weDi, And leave my heather lyoorns. Allas! And ns mv home I neared. How very big mv nurse appeared, How" great and cool the rooms.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 16
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189MY KINGDOM. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 16
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