CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPE.
YOUR Christmas conies' with holly leaves, And snow about your doors and eaves; Our lighted windows open wide. Let in our summer Christmas-tide; And where th» drifting moths may goBehold our. tiny Hakes of snow; But carol, carol, in the cold; And carol, carol as ye may.— We sine: the merry songs of old, As merrily on Christmas Day. Your hills are wrapped in rainy cloud, Your sea in anger roars aloud, But here our hills are veiled with haze In harmonics of blues and greys; , The waters of two oceans meet With friendly murmurs by our feet: But carol, carol, Christmas Waits, And carol, carol as ye may,— The crickets by our doors and gates Sins in the grace of Christmas Day. The rain and sunshine of the Capo Lie folded in the ripening grape. And Stellenbosch and. Drakenstein. With bounteous orchard, Held of vine, And every spot that we pass by— Lie burnished 'neath our Christmas sky: So carol, carol in your snow. And carol, carol as ye may,— We carol 'mid our blooms ablow. The grace of summer's Christmas Day. JOHN BUJN'CIE,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14250, 22 December 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)
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189CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14250, 22 December 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)
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