ORIGINAL POETRY.
MOUNT EGMQNT. Elsewhere the mountains have their peers, or stand Binged and beset with hedge and press of hills ; But, peerless and superb, great Egmont wills To dwell apart beside the western strand. The sweeping outlines of his towering cone Curve from the shore itself, and steadfast, grave, Above the restless, ever-changing wave, The solitary Titan watches, lone, Moveless, impassive. There, at fall of night, Wrapped in his sombre forest drapery, The giant, gazing down with fixed sight, Eyes the half-vanished sun, slow, loth to flee, Sinking, a flagon filled with crimson light, Drowned in the foam-drift of the Tasman Sea. W. P. Beeves.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1196, 1 February 1895, Page 21
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106ORIGINAL POETRY. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1196, 1 February 1895, Page 21
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