AORANGI.
Far back, where countless time-worn mountains
band, The greifc -white giant lifta his "hoary head To see the misiy floors beneath him spread, Wheie iso'ated peak-top iclau'ls stand ! Him <erpcnt glacipis guard the centuries through ; By day his brow is cooled by cloudy bars, At, night around him stream the falliug stars Through frosty tilencea and midnight blue. The shooting avalanches breaking free, The cascade with its gentle burmn<ng tone, The thunder i-olling round his quiet face, "Where frisking, forking lightnings dance and
chase, Make music round tbe frost king's icy thron«, Where sitteth lie in Nature's dignity I Ball Pass Hufc, Mount Coos - —Ma
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Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 41
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106AORANGI. Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 41
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