ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE SOUTHERN ALPS.
Those fairy heights in the blue distance rise With spiritual beauty, delicate And pure as angels' faces in a dream!— Their snowy outlines, softly, faintly keen, Are pencill'd on the rosy sky beyond By Artist's hand Divine; no mortal skill Could vie with such enchanting workmanship, Or picture half the magic of the scene!— Adown, around, the varying landscape heaves In many a bush-clad knoll and rolling hill, Far—to the limit of the whisp'rlng sea! But all the charms of soft'ning hill and dale (Whose shaded green dies in a golden haze), And all the beauty of the changing wave (Dancing and laughing to the sunny sky), All fade, and are forgot, when falls our eyes On the weird glory of that phantom range, That rises ghostly—beautiful afar, Like some faint vision of another world! —WYCH ELM. Moeraki, January 31.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 29
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148ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE SOUTHERN ALPS. Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 29
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