HOMEWARD BOUND.
Our bows have ranged through warm, green fcdS, By atoll, reef, and palm , The raging mensoon flung us, limp, To rest in tropic calm. The little lazy.'lotus isles Have lo3t then fairy spell, V. bispers float across the v.itcrr From the land we love so well Back to our misty, mountain land We scud before the breeze ; Bsck to our own loved isle? of light, Ringed round with sounding seas Ah! see those sailors, homeward bound, Their eyrs light up with fire "When you bold headland seaward turns £he flashlight >i e'esire! Heart of be still a woman. Not a aaint that harps a.nd sings; You are still too dearly human To wear a pair jf wings. — The Tebel. April, 1903. Ping pong, it i* all the go. Learn to play l*. don't Le slow, L'ts of fun you'll rind indoor=, Whilp^outsidc the terr.pnst roar*, You'll gladly thiuk you re -inu^ and warm And not out in tho ra^in^ sii-r.n To catch a coM f r\- u-hich b« tuio To take 'on, — •Woods' .Uu£A» Jforraajusx QssM-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 65
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178HOMEWARD BOUND. Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 65
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