ROTOMAHANA.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 173, 6 May 1874, Page 3

ROTOMAHANA.

(FEOM “BAHOIP AN» AMOHIA.’ ) To see that fair cascaded stair The Fountain of the Clouded Sky Takapuna Range—fitly styled ; It flir gs its steam so wide and high, ’Tis Rosy rime they climb this time { For floors and fringes, terrace piled O’er terrace, gh w with faint carmine As fashioned of cornelian fine As if, continuous, full, from heaven Some wide white avalanche downward driven Came pouring out of Sunset, stained With sanguine hues it yet retained. But at the topmost terrace, Bo I A vision like a lovely dream I—" A basin its further marge And all its service hid in steam That thinly driving, or it flies. Spreads, level, with the level plain Of smoothest milk-white marble grain ; And all around its nearer brink. Border broad of delicate pink That molts to lemon, yellow d* es That whiteness, and with even hues Fair as a rainbow laid on snow, Its wavy outline still pursues. But through the driving vapour, see Translucent depths of azure, bri And soft as heaven’s divinest blue—* A gulf profound of liquid light.