AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 6

AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

' In/ Armenia it is done, And done beneath the sunAmerica and England! . Women slaughtered, children slam, Men dismembered, lust- amain— America and England! You have ships and seamen true, Why were they given to you— America and England I Go! shake the Tyrant's shoresGo ! thunder at his doors— ' America and England! Complications—policy, Mean naught upon the seaAmerica and England! The nations may surmise All men will sympathiste, America and England! ' ?—Rev. • James' Milne. 1 Thames Star. THE~C~ABBAGE TREE. Tali and majestic, uprising so high, With thy dark even blades against < &ie sky; . And thy straight branchless stem all bare, . Without leaf or bud thy height to share. . , . . Above the hill-tops nsing in stately grace, ' Decked with Rata and Pampas and wild fern's trace, ■ With Koromiko there, and Clematis And Poro-Poro red, that the bell-birds share. With floss all rich in aromas sweet, , Thou contest with treasures November to greet, , With fragrance as mellow as Arabi s store, . ' . To fan the wild landscape and mirror . stream o'er, Noble and stately, unfettered and free, _ Is New Zealand's own treasure—The Cabbage Tree!

—Fanny Dunleavy.