THE MANIOTOPO PLAIN.
It is the sunset hour, and all is still, Save for the lisping stream, by yonder hill. Before me lies a treeless inland plain, Enfeebled l,y a burning thirst far rain ; A plain whose ancient fallen masonry Ii scattered wide as far as eye can see, Half hidden by the tussocks, fold on fold, Aglow with splendour like rich cloth of gold. The exiled sun e'eparts ; night ia at hand ; Tall mountains trail their shadows o'er the land, O'er many patient sunburnt hills, and far Beyond the pathway of the Evening Star. 'Ihe air growa chill, and wailing winds swetp by ; Then all again is calm as that far sky, 15e«p-tiu'ed with the colours of the sun — Bright emblem of the Everlasting One ! Maori Hill, February 5. —Charles Rule. S
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Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 41
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133THE MANIOTOPO PLAIN. Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 41
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