ON THE FOOTHILLS.
We warblers of the lessor heights About Parnassu's base May never feel the pure delights Of that exalted place, Wherefrom the bards divine have sang The deathless ages down. There crag o'er crag the snow-fields hang—* Thero waits the starry crown For such as climb those barren steeps* JSTor hearth nor home is there, But far around the vision sweeps O'er prospects bleak and bare— To crags that lift their suowy poise Toward the azure heaven. T'o us, content with lesser joys, Klo bliss like that is given Which holds the shepherd on the heigh' Above our holy ways, Whence wafted down his song's delight Our meagre days. —Chaslbs Oscab PALUEa Kaikoura.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2968, 1 February 1911, Page 81
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115ON THE FOOTHILLS. Otago Witness, Issue 2968, 1 February 1911, Page 81
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