The Bushman's Wish.
When I'm gone let me sleep in the foicst, Wake mypiave beneat.h the hl.ick pines,, Lay me clown with my face looking cubt waif!, Wheie I y ll know the sun on me shines. Just a w.eatb of clpmrrtis litv on me ; A. \%tn. tit'o pinsnt at, ray head : Place a r.iell is of towhjus around me. And that's .ill I wa.it when I'm dead. The sweet Liids of the woodlanc? will cheer me ""fih^nlrl I rear their b'natiful nn',p% An'l thp breach of the ioiest wi'l lull ma To sleep as it sighingly floats^ When the tain tiicklfs dowrr through the leaf-loops. And fa l Is pit .vp.it on my mound, It nsa7 wake me and slatfc me .t-wwpinc;, Or makd my )oa» sleep still mote sound. In the* fair forest foldq dc^jly dreaming, L'ii.l low in the win, vV-> biefisr,. Wlin the q\.cetestof tvihniixjbg ail roffrui me, I know I will pe«'wcfu)]y i?st. I wts .^wavs a lover of foiests, Of Winblprs, ohunmttnns. and ifieanm : TI ive niv wishes fulfill^wheu I'm ipsti.ijj Tliouqh rleitd, T will bliil ha>\o my diestriiia. A remote i pot rick ojit in the wo-tdl^-nd, in som«> uco\t dieaniin^ <lell, Wbeie the woodpeckeis peck out tilebaik-' s^'-ip 1 ?, And tinkle their bells in- the shell. t , W, H^ Sifc.%'lkiuedin r IS99.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 8, 15 June 1899, Page 2
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220The Bushman's Wish. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 8, 15 June 1899, Page 2
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