DUNEDIN BAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2510, 23 April 1902, Page 59

DUNEDIN BAY.

Oh, for a track on the ocean deep, Where the ships pail night and day— A sleepless generation, bathed In sapphire light and giej — It's oh. l for a moment's peace to dieam The dieanib of a sun-lusbed bay. Of theo on thy green hill gangway, Bedottod with, cosy farms , In the light of sweet October, All blissful with the charms Of a maid in brid^'b adorning. Embraced in the mountain'? arms. The dream of a fair-haired schoolboy — A dream of sadness — yet A noble, hai.cKome lad was he With hpb and h.nb, well set He biaveu your woiat pirniJ, angry Lay, When Ins' wee boat 1 , bads were wet He knew of your morn and even shades — Of the length of your summer days, Of the gates that open the ferny haunts, Where the bellbird sings your praise, His wee boat recked at the harbour mouth, In one of your charming bays. His mates one day for pleasure bought The inlets seldom seen , So the lazy breezes bore them where The Maori glades were green. When the storm carao on they were far from home, With the winds and the wa\e« between. They learned that night of tenor The wind was an angry gale , Three sat in the woo boat, pale with fear, Kot heard the seamews' wail. He held the rudder in his hand, His e\e v as on the sail. He beat the gale at the offiug, He t.icked at the rocky wall , The gunnel hissed through the seething \v«i*. es, Commanding tlmi?s that call The noblest out of the he-art of a man — And the c pruy v.'as over all. Then the lights ci the wnaif aid the «ky appeared— They dared to breathe aloud. When crash' and the wee boat s d.iys were o'er— It's sail foi evei bowed; And the tlute that fctrcJ the wa\es weie =a\i.d, But his id a iejiun'i shioud Oh, for a tr.T^lc c the oecar deep, Where t-h.ps sail vg'.ii ai d day — A sleepless gcneia' on, bathed In sapphne light and giey' Oh' for d moni' ill's pcaie to div.-aui The die-am- of y-'-tuid.u ' If= oV for .. •- -'it o' tl'» <=.=lei i- " = And thi_- >oiiud of thn distant b..r. A.d vie white f. i J biv-i: ami roi.l y pur, With the sc^u'.ls s.fi!uiß far— And the \oicc tlut come 1 ! through the ci.slant years. Likv. the light ol an cvcnl'.q .-vr 1 — Jons LIj(LE-Vi::

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