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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14658, 27 January 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

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KQii .v:\Cii ft 8 I T,- a f° <l,u;i tlllJ Jli-hglltO J].ll, lho Hiaha.il, Hill tho Uigli-ue J-iili. As 1 ! in(il tll .. >ii K i,, ;ato Jl„[ i I)n't, tm sun's brav.Hi:.-. /\ad ynvrbulow hip, j'cid on fold, . V .V ; «»rl, ;iinl i>:-;trl to "old, ii ;K;. ;i hi:)a #>i*> ■t — 1 land oi' cldo»*ii'«o ■C&DraUi. Hp w:ls a fail,,,- b-.i-J, Ad 1? I'obishor, S:r Walter, iuo, -Jut- HO'cr th tv :-.o.\v .so ri-. h v. roaira • r i that lay bcloro ih •*a»imlcs they strode beside me rti l ], I tHyvjil ol my blor.d, down lli-2lij;ate I fill, they iolfc the aclf-samo thiill , And saujf tho seli-f.arne chorus. /And Kenta lio joined n? half-way down ■ 'Keats the chemist, Tvc:its tho cleric, Oh Konts Ik? joined lis halt-way n. And laughed our luf.fv r. ?d hailed with u.s rh.-' far : o mystic »rovcs. thr hid dotwhi .:is. j i.d all tho pa.*.sionnie. /piend.d noon/i. And the feasts that fail tliuiMauor. A* ami in arm duvr. llwh-'ate Kill), Down down -ii-h^Ue A? arm in arm down ito 'Mil], We met tho mih s bravado. And saw below n. ,; . fold o-i fold. Grey to pearl, and i!\»ari to crold. Onr lilro a hind of »>ld. Tho land of eMarado. »—H. H. Bashford in the •'Speoialor." "GO DOWN TO KEW—." Go down to Kew in lila:: time, in hiao time, in iilac time. Go down to Kow in lihu: time. it isn't far from London. And yon shall wander hand :n hand, with love in summer's wonderland. Go down to Kew in lih\c time \!t i.T»i't fax from London). Tho clieri-y trees arc seas rf Vourri. and soft perfume, and sxv"<vt parfnmo, Th© cherry trees are sea. s ; of hloovn, (and oh. so rear to Lonlon ; ) And there say. when dawn is high and all the world's a h'&ze of sky. Tho cuckoo. though he's very shy, will sing a song for London.' The nightingale is rather -ate, and yet tlioy .say roirll hear L'm there. At Kow. at KoWj in 1 ilJ.ime (and oh! s;j !io;ir !•: London).' The linnet and the "thrushes. too. and iiflor dark ihe hallao, And tu-whit, tu-whoos of owl? that oirlo London. 'For Noah hardly knew a Ivrd "f my kind tint im't lizard At Krw. at Kew. in iiia? time (and tfh! so near to LondonH And when the rn-e Vrrim; to r..:ufc. and all the chestnut flowers are out. You'll hoar the rp~t. -vithrait n doubt, all for I.ondon. Como down to Kew in lilm? tims. in \ lil'ao time, in lilac time, ; Come down t-a Kew in I'lae it isn't far from London. And yon shall wander hand in Innd with love :n summer's wonderInn^ Come down to "Kew in Wne timo (it isn't far from London). —Alfred Noyf:?.