Original Poetry.
The History of New Zealand.
Gems of the Antipodes! Paradise of Earth! Fair isles of Southern seas, whose lusty birth From out the Ocean, with tumultuous sound, Keft the Heavens witn her mountains: Where snow and ice around their summits
grew, • Till the summers Sun put forth his power, And made the waters run in rivers to the sea;
Then the forests grand, Kesplendent in verdant hues, clothed -the land.
Burst from subterranoan firos, Nurst by ages, Till the Maori's sires, From some warmer, northern clime, At an unremembered time, Built their whares,—brought their wives; Lived on berries, fishes—sper.t their lives Fighting, feasting, Brothers eating."
Years on years roll on ! The white man sets his foot upon the dark man's home ! From lands afar, 'cross seas and foam, The white man comes to share the dark man's
home. ■-.■■-■ From those long-distant sherea The white man brings his wigwam and his stores, . And his gallant vessel's laden With his brother and the maiden!
IT. The Earth revolves, and Time resolves Honses, faims, and cities fair, Where was but now the dark man's lair! 0. Voice-Hawkins.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5089, 9 May 1885, Page 1
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186Original Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5089, 9 May 1885, Page 1
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