Patria
(Written by 0.W.W., a New Zealand Soldior in France, 1917.) From "N.Z. Medical Journal."
Xew Zealand ! A free land ! This land is my land. Snow-covered mountains and sea-girdled island. Fen i of the forest, and reed of the river, Richly they draw me : God is the giver. Swoot is tho scent of the ti-troo at morning, Cloar ia tho noto of tho tui at dawning,
Blood-red tho bloom of the pohutukawa, Chaste on t he mountains stand groves of tho tawa. Dear is the life in the air of New Zealand Down by the beaches, or deep in the tree-land. Hoftor is death when it falls in our island, Xew Zoaland ! A froo land ! This land is my land.
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 1, 1 January 1919, Page 3
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120Patria Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 1, 1 January 1919, Page 3
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