WHY?
Oh sea, of mystic restlessness and grace, Why win my heart to leave it throbbing, Throbbing as an echo faint in answer^ To thy dreamy croon and gentle sobbing? Thy rippling wavelets kiss the sands of gold With soft and laughing lips of silver spray, While I, unloved by thee, must pine alone Upon the soulless cliffs of granite grey. The virgin streams rush ever madly on, To meet the passion of thy wild desireTo learn thy music sad and soft, intoned By winds whose breath is sweet with love's strange fire; And as they drift within thy bold embrace, Or glide beneath thy breast of blue, I pray For power to burst the chains that hold mf slave Upon the soulless cliffs of granite grey. — C. MORTON HARVEY. Dolgelly Bore, N.S.W., Noveniber,^l9oo. — The Swiss Cabinet consists of seven' members, each of whom draws £480 per annum. ■ — Belgium is the most thickly-popiilated ' country of Europe', with '224- inhabitants to every square mile ; then follow Holland with 152 : Great Britain with 127 ; Italy wifcft 111"; the German Empire with 97 ; Switzerland with 76 ; and Denmark with 58. The- lenstciowded countries in Europe are Russia with 31. Sweden with 11, and Norway with 6'inhabitants per square mile. '
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Otago Witness, 5 December 1900, Page 67
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206WHY? Otago Witness, 5 December 1900, Page 67
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