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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5 (September 1, 1933)

Taupo Edged With Gold

page 31

Taupo Edged With Gold.

Taupo, edged with living gold of dancing kowhai flow'rs,
(But you and I, my dear, not there to see),
In dreaming autumn turns to tint of mellow poplar tow'rs
That float their yellow drifting leaves upon its singing sea.
Did you know a yellow flow'r had fallen on your hair,
And there are miles of rod and golden broom?
The swinging, windblown scent of it is more than I can bear,
And kissing's out of fashion when the gorse is out of bloom.
Have you seen the golden gorse run down towards the sand?
(Tie your sandshoes on your bare brown feet,
Don your bluest linen gown and give me your warm hand),
Can't you smell the yellow flow'rs that ripen in the heat?
Did you know a golden bloom had brushed across your mouth
The more its clinging sweetness to perfume?
That gold and yellow sunset floods across from west to south,
And—kissing's out of fashion when the gorse is out of bloom?

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