NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 480, 20 November 1850, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

BY MARTIN F. TUPPER*

[From the "Anglo-Saxon."] Queen of the South ! which the mighty Pacific Claims for its Britain in ages to be, Bright with fair visions and hopes beatific, Glorious and happy thy future I see ! Thither the children of England are thronging There for ti ue riches securely to search ; Not for thy gold, California, longing, But for sweet home, with enough, and a Church ! There, a soft clime and a soil ever teeming, Summer's December, and Winter's July, With the bright Southern Cross in the firmament gleaming, The Dove, and the Crown, and the Altar on high' There, the broad prairies with forest and rirer, There, the safe harbours are bidding men search For Thy blest blessings, 0 Heavenly Giver ! Home, with enough, and an Englishman's Church! Yes ; for Brittannia, the Mother of Nations Sends out her children, as teeming old Greece, Good men and great men, to stand in their station* Merchants of plenty, and heralds of peace: Stout Anglo-Saxons ! Port Victory calls you; Take the glad omen, and speedily search, Where you shall gather, whatever befalls you Truest of treasures, a Home and a Church! Fifty years hence— look forward and see it, Itealm of New Zealand, what then slult thou sect (If the world live*, at The Fathkr's So bo it), All slnll be greatness and glory with thee! Even should Britain's decay be down wi itten In the dread doom book that no man may searclu Still shall *n Oxford, a London, a Biitain, Gladden the South with a Home and a Church I

In Uie same publication, Mr Turrßit addresses the following " Sonnet l>y way of. Postscript to the Emigrants to the Canterbury Settlement" —

SONNET. Go forth in faith and patience, hope and lore! Hut think not, Voyagers, to leave behind Ills of the flesh or passions of the mind, Nor to anticipate the bliss aboTe In this new homo ; for evil must he there,--. Evil that sails alikes on eveiy win.l, In spite of all your caution, all your udtc ; Then, be ye tolerant : let no stern soul, However right his ethics or his life, Over the we iker brothers, claim controul— Stiiring the flock to bitterness ofstiife: Honour man's, conscience , from all shackles loose The honest mind with freedom's instinct rife i Take the Chinch with >ou, — but uo Churclwbiue»