Part 11. AUSTRALIA'S SOLITARY PAST.
The reign of solitude o'er a ale and hill, Hroad-breasted lake, deep river, leaping rill. O'erstrny wastes ot silliness seldom stined Ry whin- ot winpr, or note ot pa^simj bird, Or speech barbaric : from whose taco austere The shuddei mi; savage turns in speechless tear ; W'iieio tainting nature sinks and swoons away. tinut by the summer sun s unkindlicst ray. O'er ferny haunts, whose mossy hollows deep The li\ elongycar their tadtless beauty keep. O'er the primeval loiest depths piotcnind. Wherein is heard tlie wild birds ,io,\ous sound. O'er Icae;up3 of as rat hfnl waves \\ ltli sullen roar Tumultuous thundering on (he rock - bound shore. O'er all pcrpotual solitudo doth brood bu\ c wl.oro the savage stalks in seaich of food— A land by eh ilisation's step untrod, Alono with Nature and with Nature's God.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 290, 15 August 1888, Page 6
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140Part II. AUSTRALIA'S SOLITARY PAST. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 290, 15 August 1888, Page 6
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