A PLEA FOR FOREST MUSIC.
I (On reading an prticle by Mr G. Fenwick in the Otago Witness entitled " Lake Hau- , roto," containing a powerful and heartfelt plea, for the protection of native birds in that district.) A plea for the birds of the forest! The clear-throated host of the woods, Those choristers splendid, whose altar ! Is reared in Earth's solitudes. 1 Yet why should the protest be written? ! Has Beauty no lips of its own! To plead for the right Heaven gave it When forests primeval were sown? Must music be guarded by statutes Whose fervour was granted to men That they might be wooed from their toiling To gladness and vigour again! The thought is a libel on manhood: A people with power to draw Them near to such anthems, and listen, Should scorn to be fettered by law. Save the statute, unworded and written Alone in the language of love, When the bosom goes out in affection j To choristers shrined in the giove. j — J. Maclennaw.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 63
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170A PLEA FOR FOREST MUSIC. Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 63
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