THE PIHOIHOI.
D.L.P.
(New Zealand Ground Lark).
Not yours to soar into the blue At break of morn, not yours to sing In song immortal, when the dew Lies on the grass and jewels cling To shrub and tree, not yours to dress In raiment fine, but just to wear The greyness of the wilderness And all its joys and sorrows share. And yet your homeliness in me And cheerful chirp on summer days Awake a deeper memory Than gayer plumes or grander lays. They bring me back the long ago, The happy days when as a child I knew life’s joy without its woe, Amid the wonders of the wild.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 33, 1 June 1934, Page 12
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111THE PIHOIHOI. Forest and Bird, Issue 33, 1 June 1934, Page 12
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