ORIGINAL POETRY. THE EMIGRANT'S RETROSPECT.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 January 1884, Page 5

ORIGINAL POETRY. THE EMIGRANT'S RETROSPECT.

A panorama fair and grand. Appears at touch of memory's wand, While I sit. fondly musing o'er A letter, from my native shore, Enclosing Scottish Bracken. Passing before' molclear and bright, Scones that woul&iblcss an Artist's sight, A winding verdant lowland dell. Where fair serenity doth dwell. Secure 'mong Scottish Bracken. Noise and din aro horo, unknown. The stones, with moss, are ovorgrown, Yon barn that flows its course along. Aye, murmuring its own sweet song, Bedews the Scottish Bracken. The Highlands rise majestic, lone; Where all ro-ochoes, " Natures own. 1 ' The eagles rocky eyre high, The mountains flood, and like a sigh Beads c'en the Scottish Bracken. The solemn tarn, the sombre glen. Perhaps ne'er trod by feet of men ; The stoping brae, the dizzy height. That catches first the dawning light, Are clad in Scottish Bracken. Superior seems their air and mion, Whose lives ai'e passed near such a scene The stalwart Gael who wraps his breast In tartan plaid, sinks calm to rest Upon the Scottish Bracken. The noble roebuck, bounding free, Wears all the stamp of liberty, ltoams idly through tho summer day, Or gracefully dispoi'ts in play, Amongst the Scottish Bracken. Perchance across these lonely moors The love of sport, the traveller liu'cs, Seen by tho red deer, sentry's eye, Who warns the antlered herd that hio With speed o'er Scottish Bracken. Bright Cora Lynn, whose sparkling spray Gleams like tho Diamond in Sols' ray, Which cither Bank, with Emerald sheen, Appears to frame, but, closer seen Reveals the Scottish Brackon. His insignificance Alan fools 'Mid scenes liko them:, and humbly kneels To Nature's God, who-c -ovureign hand Created Caledonia s Land, And Scotia's lovely Bracken.

H.B.