A TAPANUI BEAUTY SPOT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 59

A TAPANUI BEAUTY SPOT.

(Lines addietscd to "Whisky Gully, in the vicinity of the Blue Mountains ) Oh. cu'ly fan, l)p|o\e'l letieat' How oft l'\c looked m uondci, lliy idiry dells, lnfriii^e'l and sutet, In meditation ponder Thy thicklv-dpcl.ed and wooded knolls, So knit to human nature, And °on,j buds, how then mu^ic trills, To harironi'-tf m fuliue. With >ipph"g *-t!eair. a and .err. 1 - green In quiet, unknown nookfeTheii rustic beauty so to screen, As one and other looks. And towering high, the mistletoe, In ccai'et brightness sl'ov.,i. Thus bellbird now, unscathed by foe, 1^ tlielteied and unknown Thy in«ged path and mo« — gi^nn baiik To flowing \vaterfali= . - So fair a picture, first m rank, To al! artistic calls. You m.i} wander far in many c'inifs, And scenes abioad to ro/e, Entwine you thought-, in «iiniij rhj.ue°, And Xdture so to mo\ c , But <■>] c deal =rnt will come to ;ni, With homely b«auty dwr>'! Oh, glen, impassioned. lo\cd, aiid hue, Thy loveliness too well 1 Farewell lo th"c, uio^t blr^eJ of haunts! I feign from tlicp you rl n.irt Oh, Hand Divine, Mich ,<>\ implants Endc-c'iiici. t to i!i\ 1il;u1. — Axnie Mackenzie. la»aaui, April, 19Q2