A REAWAKENING.
" The biscuit-like walls of the old crater stand up for centuries, heaving beautiful, scornful pinnacles aloft into the blue of Heaven ; and the grass grows on the old flame-eaten rocks, in the holes of which wild cats and lizards live and squabble and say things behind one another's backs ; and people have picnics there, and lost sheep feed there and waken startling echoes in the dead silence of the summer noon by their solitary bleatings ; and the eagle conies sometimes and throws his swift shadow across the short grass, and all goes on peacefully until folks notice that a white, round-topped cloud hangs high aloft over the hill and stays there ; and then someone says that the cloud is red at night on the lower edge ; and then some fine morning down slides the lip of the old crater, crash, in unutterable ruin, and away comes the great lava stream hissing though the vineyards and Hell is broken loose once more !" H. Kingsley.
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Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 95, 13 November 1878, Page 3
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165A REAWAKENING. Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 95, 13 November 1878, Page 3
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