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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 3, No. 2. 1940
On Little A's Impressions of the Orongorongos
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On Little A's Impressions of the Orongorongos.
Little a?
From Day's Bay
Did you send your muse forth flying?
Did she find the G. B. trying?
Did you say,
Little a,
That you saw the cloud-nymphs dancing?
Saw aerial spirits prancing?
It may be
That you see
In a purer light and clearer,
See a vision brighter, fairer...
But as yet
I regret
I've seen no celestial ballet
Danced by sprites o'er Tawhai chalet.
Such sights are
Better far
Seen from libraries quiescent,
Than from rivers chill, and Five-Mile deliquescent.
(H.W. is obviously one of these cast-iron trampers who have no time to look for "Sky-Gods", and "celestial ballets". This does not mean to say that they do not exist. - Ed.)