A HOLIDAY.
On Rnkiura's* waters I'm afloat, I watch tall An^Jem's shadow on the sea, I listen to a faint, sweet melody Sung by a seaman in a distant boat. Fit nlace for a hilarious Quixote "Whose dreams are all of Greece and Italy; But here delusion is the meanest fee, * For methinks o'er brighter scenes none could gloat. About the sturdy craft my books are thrown. And when dark louds the pleasure-land destroy, I am not left in a sad world alone: I learn strange Russia's ways from Count Tolstoy, I rule thro' Austral plains with Ogi'.vie, Or list to Keats' gay airs in Arcatly. — J. Y. B. Im-ercargill, May 7, 1903. ♦Stewart Island.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 70
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115A HOLIDAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 70
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