WINTER IN CENTRAL OTAGO.
■Wild winter on the frozen hills, The locky p alrc, the ice-bound rills, Thf: luw. rii'g red of early morning, The even with itb misty chilln ; The 'eathery am w fluke* earthward flying, The wiutiy tuu-beiuii-- faintly dying, The icy ling-is in the gorge, The hai-ah-voiced birds on low wing crying. Below Ih misi-eiisinoudul plain, Tbe windfl that w,<i! like men in pain; Beyond thetvoilu.vui!? maiiutuinx, The glacier and the wjld mur.iiuc. Aspiring's i>eak that cleaves tho sky, The western rat ge where £>un»fls die, The distant Cliitlia's shadowy valley, The eastward Taieri winding nigh. Without, tl;e stoimy winter night; Within, t<-c pual-Ihv leaping bright, Tobacco iucoiise oftly cui-lirp, Th* yliy of wit and fnucy li^lit. Ah ! who would give such joy^ a<i these For the sunny Mimnicr's dub y hiee/o ! While loud and long the t nipust thunders, And every pleasure knows to please. Puketoi, June 15. —David- M'Keb Wright.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2157, 27 June 1895, Page 39
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155WINTER IN CENTRAL OTAGO. Otago Witness, Issue 2157, 27 June 1895, Page 39
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