ARCADIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11433, 25 July 1900, Page 3

ARCADIA.

A PLACE for idlers you have here, rather lazy, rather drear— Kather placid; and I'd stay if it were well. But the truth, it septus to me, is that the North will ever he A land of idle dreams, of somnolent spell. Somnolent swell. Not that there is wafted townwards. by the counter-trades, blown downwards, Just a dim cadenza of your loneliness; For comes at times the note of some cockatoo, remote, , Pouring forth the North's deep wrongs and her distress. Dire distress. So that Nature is the cause, and to combat her laws, In this case helped by Pate, appears unwise :. i A waste of breath and time, and your enervating clime Holds one, at least, no minute sacrifice Sao-ri-fiee! But the millions that will come yet, on tills world of rise and sunset, Will fill your Arcadia, and make it smile. Imagine it like Malta— know your fancy's prone to alterWhen you'll people fourteen hundred to tho mile! ' i Square mile. Oh, no, I am not bitter; for does the show and glitter -, , < Of life amid the choking crowd compare To the sylvan, quiet recesses, where the soli- .' tude impresses— To the North wo turn when city sores are bare, ." ' " ' ' »'"''' ' '' .-:";„ ■_.;;;;' Laid bare. ~ Good-bye, the boat is leaving; when I'm on . ~-•? the ocean heaving. ,. , . ..:.-"> ■}& • And the steamer noises ; break me in for i town once more, ; <-V t '■ I shall think of that last ride; we had— the. • moon, the trees, the wavclots sad- •::->: . Ami wish that I had stayed for evermore. '.v ':. ' '■-'; ■'■ ." KovcrmoTC.?' i-v ~ - - , ■■■■ J.J.M. . 1900." .'•■■".. ;•;■■ i -H\