A ROSE OF SPRING.
How lonely are the men who keep watch and ward in the lighthouses that guard the coasts where winter storms beat on rocky shores!
Not long ago everyone anxiously waited to hear when a lighthouse keeper on our south-western coast, left solitary by the sickness of his mate, was to be released. Now there is a story like, it from the Armen lighthouse off the wild coast of Brittany. For 53 days one of the men had been left there unrelieved, though part of the time he had a companion with him. Storms had prevented any boat from reaching the rock when his own turn for relief came.
At last a little sailing vessel, the Rose du Printenips, crept up beneath the rock and took the lighthouse-keeper off. How appropriate the little boat's charming name must have seemed to him —the Rose of Spring!
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19328, 15 May 1926, Page 4 (Supplement)
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148A ROSE OF SPRING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19328, 15 May 1926, Page 4 (Supplement)
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