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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 2 (May 2, 1938.)

Here In This Lovely Place

Here In This Lovely Place.

Here in this lovely place
Day breaks in music, the long fields lie
Friendly, and calm through the careful
rows
Of trees, like cool green flames that
pierce
The slow blue splendour of the sky.
And here the people know
The soft, kind speech of the simple
grass;
They walk their ways with the tall
straight trees;
And their songs are tuned to the sky's
blue dream
Where the silent white clouds stray
and pass.
Here in this lovely place
The white stars steal within your
breast
When day shuts softly like a flower.
Here surely may the young men find
Their dreams again: the old men, rest.

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