NEW ZEALAND BUSH
A sparkling stream, and a grassy bank, Where moss and fern leaf clings, The tall tree ferns and kauri trees— And wafted on the gentle breeze The notes a tui sings. Kowhai golden, manuka white, And rata aflame with red. The low dull drone of the native bees, Clematis, white, and the Christmas . . trees, And supplejack twined overhead. The bellbird’s mimic, the kea’s screech, [ The fantail flits to a tree, And now and then the morepork calls, By tinkling streams and waterfalls, As they wander away to the sea. —DOROTHY MASLEN (aged 13).
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 16
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96NEW ZEALAND BUSH New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 16
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