The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 1 (April 2, 1934.)
Mount Egmont
Mount Egmont.
Egmont flung athwart the plain Impassive in the blue-black night. Gleaming-white in the dusk Towering supreme in magnificent height. Monument of peace brooding Silent sentinel of the ages; One of Nature's mightiest seers Inscrutable as the ancient sages. Egmont—where the fire-demons battled When Maoriland was very young; Witness of a thousand Maori battles And the triumphs of tribes unsung.
—N. F. Hoggard.
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