THE TRAIL
Cream ooze and silvery fall, Ruias, safe and certain, Bush-lined river, and fox-gloves tall And kakaramea curtain. Devious wood path, strawberry lined, Roof bestrewn and stony, Choice koaro, travelling blind Caught by cold Waioho. Scots thistle, and English brier, Southern sweet manuka, Yellow tussock and mouria spire And bright tumingi huka. Curious creatures cavern-bred In stygian gloom unending, Long of body and short of head, Upside down depending. Moss-grown hollow obsidian ledge, Huge rain-rounded boulders, Fathomless pit and crumbling edge And cinder garnished shoulders. Golden globe and silver cloud, White and azure blending, Indian haze and Arctic shroud And sulphur scent ascending. Treacherous thaw and cold crevasse, Mountain daisies beaming, Flax-grown spur and wide morass And lanky liawk-weed teeming. Birchen groves and hohoo tofts, Taraheki crackling, Taiwa plots and clover crofts, And glorious geese a cackling. —OLIVE®.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 13
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139THE TRAIL New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 13
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