O CALEDONIA

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5603, 9 April 1943, Page 5

O CALEDONIA

q 1.,. -: and wild I /. DIEE’S POEM : icci below is a poem appearing • i"i the Fcrees newspaper in the thor is A. S. Hely ■n is accredited as prer.- ■ j- -? in “Haggis.” to those associated dult Educational Movewar, the author bein the early n .’ . first joined the movefl student. Later he was a University bursary and . . J ’.ty of subjects for ■ ' • -c and an Arts de- . . He was then appointed as t . the Workers’ Eduociation in Palmerston town he moved with : . ui.two children. Mr Hely as a. seaman in his youth and durmuch of his university career L fell in the depression years) . yed or eking out a prei,fence with temporary ui' many descriptions. The hum- . 4. of life was not then and . ■ . since been lost on him, as , ... in active service overseas to his academic and otherwise. ‘ i lai 1 of the blest” Wi trade winds blow, ■: : . atl Gio fruits of Eden i i wild profusion grow; re mangoes ripe fall in your lap d i iiik and honey flow; glamorous' Just like a Broadway show. *- ■’ j’L believe it’s true? 4 . it F f iust be so! Y u. j cud it in the papers, /.■nd lie .11.• . . . they know! do m t get < i.r fruit from trees .... It comes in tins instead. life” interesting, ■. .t.’iir.s round our head, ’ J i: s croaking through the night And bull-ajits in our bed; A ,: - °f gnats and bugs ; ' .. bread, . . . lid endless rain— i i\t c’il! we liv ?n paradise! . v.hat the papers said. w' ay croon* upon the reef, sumiflies whine ashore; Y c b; ’he within the still lagoon But sea-snakes use it jnore. -J ;cve:-y tropic shrub and vine . 'a .'. hus red and raw, L.nd big, black blowflies come in swarms .Around the cookhouse, door. I?" calb?d “Pacific Paradise” <6 printed word is law), , But we agree this is' no place To fight a bleeding war.