WEATHER NOTES ON AUCKLAND
\ INTER is never silent in this town; We can never hold an hour in our hands As if it could not run, Snow tiever lays its silence on our lips; UT always the sea shuffles on cliffs and beaches And endlessly across our natrow perch Stream nervous ocean winds Driving the bulging rain clouds Sane bearing through garden branches The voice of the portThe mumble of trains and trams, The long-drawn melancholy horn Of ‘ships departing, And the chimes of the Ferry clock Telling of time flowing. }OW thunder rolls around the Gulf And lascar sailors in Quay Street Shiver in blue cotton. Ae the air is a murmur and moventent, A restless traffic of men and ¢lements; Uneasily the liners swing at anchor, The young are taut with longing And citizens driven by wind and rain Suffer a dream of voyages. Y/TeNese shakes the heart And all night long The wind rattles the blind.
J.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 12
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161WEATHER NOTES ON AUCKLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 12
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