Mount Cook.
'Twhs morning, calm and bright, and all tbe air, Burdened witli odouis of the swelling sea, And high above a cloudless canopy, Was so pellucid tbat the mountains, fair And far, and strangers to the foet, of care, Seemed but a league away ; and one might be Allured to cross the intervening lea For purest commune of the spirit there!
And all at once we saw with ravished eyes, Glorious witb sheen as of an angel's wing, The soul-exalting, cloud-aspiring king Men call Aorangi ! proudly did he rise O'er subject peaks that stood in massive ring- — A grand old mystic, yearning for tbe skies !
Henry Allison,
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New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 2, 1 November 1902, Page 137
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108Mount Cook. New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 2, 1 November 1902, Page 137
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