"WHERE THE PELICAN BUILDS HER NEST"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 June 1916, Page 2

"WHERE THE PELICAN BUILDS HER NEST"

« 'Ihe horses were reedy, the rails were down, -But the riders lingered still; One had a parting word to say, And one had his pipe to fill. Then they mounted, one with <a grant- ' ed prayer, Andi one with a grief ungueesed. "We are going," they said, as they rode away, "Wftere the Pejicam builds her nest." 'l'hey had told> us of pastures wide and green, To be sought past we sunset's glow; Of rittf, in the ranges by opal lit, And gold 'neatb the rivers flow. And thirst and hunger were banished words When they spoke of that unknown West,; No drought they dreamt of, no flood feared, "Where the l'elican builds her nest." i he creek at the ford was but fetlock deep, When we watched them crossing there; The rains Tiave replenished it thrioe since then, And thrice the rock lain . bare. But the waters of hope nave llowod and Bed., And never trom blue 11 ill's breast Oome back—by the sun and sands devoured, "When the' Pelican builds her -nest. MR.S FOOTfc.