Nikolina
Oh, tell me, little children, have you seen her? The tiny maid from Norway, Nikolina— Oh, her eyes arc blue as corn-flow-ers, ’mid tho corn. And her cheeks are rosy-red as skies of morn.
“Nikolina!” Swift she turns if ary calls her, As she stands among the poppies, hardly taller, Breaking off their scarlet cups for you, With spikes of slender larkspur, burning blue.
In her little garden many a flower is growing— Red and gold and purple in the south wind blowing; But the child that stands among the blossoms gay Is sweeter, quainter, brighter e’en than they.
—Celia Thaxter, in ‘The St. Nicholas Song Book.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 11
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108Nikolina Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 11
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