HOUSE OF RETIREMENT
NN the porch that quivers with the echo of the tui The budgie cries trom its grill. In the windows where the yachts billow in with the sunset The plaster-dog sits on the sill, And the white rooms adventurous with wafts of seaweed
Are larded with chlorophyll.
Elsie
Locke
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 14
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52HOUSE OF RETIREMENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 14
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