New Zealand Verse/Ti-trees and the Kukupa

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LXXV.

Ti-trees and the Kukupa.

 A grove of the southern palm  On an islet, aloneIn the bosom unrippled and calmOf a lake with its mountain-zone:
 The wild bee’s singingHas ceased in the great white bloom;And the once gay-scented plume Hangs lazily swinging:
White? it is still milk-white In its green top serried,  Still milk-white,—But drooping, heavily berried.
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In the midst, iridescent and glowing,  Full-breasted, bead-eyed, Bright as the Argus showing,  Not knowing its pride,— (Low and gentle the call,  Cooing, and cooing: Wood-pigeons; that is all,  Cooing and wooing.)

Johannes C. Andersen.

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