EARLY SETTLERS
("When Tasman rediscovered these islands."-Buck.) [HE silver-eye, the wasp, are latest, And the Dutch in their second coming. But others earlier, discovering islands, Parting the sky, the sunset fringes, Sunlong, starlong, with the prow on Venus, In the easy season of the Pleiades. The Association Is open to the descendants Of the Early Shiploads. Did you come in the Endeavour? The Wycliffe, Tory, or the Charlotte Jane? There is a small subscription. But our long fish broke the western waters For Kupe, Toi, before Young Nick or Abel. Which is your canoe? Tainui, Arawa, or Kurahaupo? You should join the Association. There is no colour bar. This is a young country, Counting the white keys only. "2.0 p.m., 7th October, Land from the masthead. Could but just see it off the deck at sunset, West by North." "A great land, high-lying." Aotea-roa. Timeless the first arrivals By the scarlet trees. "Ko te iwi Maori’’-but the tribe is human, Adam the ancestor.
We are all descended.
S. J.
Harrox
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 17
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170EARLY SETTLERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 17
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