Auckland: A Sonnet.
Incomparably the fairest of the score# Of cities manifoldly-clustering • Like pearls about the Southern Ocean's shores. Thou art the central gem, out-lustering The rest —Serene and beautiful and rare! Ineffably and infinitely blue, Thy skies look down on waters everywhere Translucent as the burnished sapphire’s hue; Thine exquisitely bright and vivid strands, Set In the glorious sunshine’s gleaming gold. Or in the st reaming moonlight's silvery bauds. Such treasured pictures, for all time do hold. That, when I backward look, thou seem’st to me More sweet thau elsewhere Is, on land or sea.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XIII, 27 September 1902, Page 792
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96Auckland: A Sonnet. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XIII, 27 September 1902, Page 792
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