A RIVER SCENE.
Tlie green-tinged shallows, of the river fair-; i ■',-"--'■>,• .-■(.*•■',-." -'"••''.'.,..'.' ■ .' ' '-j Here rush and roar amongst the! drift. j logs grey ; . ; Upon the sandbanks stranded lie theyj bare, "'^j " *■.■*::■■■-■■ • . ■ . . 1 And the bright stream against them; flies .in -spray^ ;..-- -•. _; Which .m, the summer sun now flasnes; - gay: ...-:■ '• . " W] Glittering crystal bright, with diamond.; fire, ' - : - Wliile\far%above th* ascending lark doth ''" .' WtlV. '; .:.; "'. . , • .■•/■ ...:•'. And, with" the stream's its song blends, rising higher. ; ■"'";. r . , Far dbwrf . the river : creeps a wherry small • " . • .-.. ■ With oars a-shining m the morning's '■"-' sun'; i-"\ -. - ' '-.."?"■'■ - : ; Foam . seller eated^ vainbow-like o'er all,: Hangsj (but .the brifdge is reached,-, its voyage is done. 'Midst rushes does it "■ pass, the oars d^xxvn fall, And on the beach the spray-wet prow is run. ....-•._',...-.; •:'.-•— B. D- Ward,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 10
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124A RIVER SCENE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 10
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