REPROACH
Geraldine Baylis.
Before you came the bush, Impervious to hurt, Lavished green luxuriance On many tranquil hills. Far as the eye could scan, From mountain to the sea, The peace of verdant growth Was writ upon the land Where, mid the crowding leaves, Forest-loving birds Made a home. They thought such loveliness, Bush and bird and flowers, By nature’s laws enough, Could even lovelier be if man did intervene, And so to the forest you were brought. The green things trembled, But they could not speak; Until too late when drooping boughs And trunks divested of their bark Mutely told of havoc wrought by you,
A herd of deer.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 54, 1 November 1939, Page 14
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110REPROACH Forest and Bird, Issue 54, 1 November 1939, Page 14
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