THE LAND OF LITTLE PEOPLE.
♦ Far away, and yet bo near us, lies a land where all have been, Played beside its sparkling wators, danced along its meadows green, Where the busy world we dwell m and its noises only seem Like the eoho of a tempest or the shadow of a dream And it grows not old for ever, sweet and young it is to-day, Tis the land of little peoplo, where the happy children play. And (ho things they know and ccc there are so wonderful and grand, Things that wiser folks and older oannot know or understand ; In the woods they meet the fairies, find the giants m their oaves, Bee the palaces of oloudland, hear th« murmur m the waves ; Know what all the birdies sing of, hear the secrets of the flow'ra, For the land of little people is another world than ours. Ones 'twas ours ; 'tis ours no longer, for, when nursery time is o'er, Through the land of little people we may wander never more, But wo hear their merry voioes and we see them at their play, And our own dark world grows brighter, and we seem as young as they, Roaming over shore and meadow, talking to the birds and flow'ra, —For the land of little people is a fairer world than ours. — Auokland "News."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1736, 10 January 1888, Page 2
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224THE LAND OF LITTLE PEOPLE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1736, 10 January 1888, Page 2
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