VAGRANT VERSE
THE SEA GULL. The .vhite sea gull, the wild sea gull!— A joyful bird is he, As he lies like a cradled thing at rest In the arms of a sunny sea! The little waves rock to and fro, And the white gull lies asleep; As the usher's boat, with breeze and tide, Goes merrily over the deep. The ship, with her fair sails set, goes by; And her people stand to note How the sea gull sits on the rocking waves, As still as an anchored boat. The sea is fresh, and the sea is fair, And the sky calm overhead; And the sea gull lies on the deep, deep sea, Like a king in his royal bed! —Mary Howitt.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19200628.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 18860, 28 June 1920, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
123VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 18860, 28 June 1920, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in