History
(Golder Project subject term)
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Lines — On hearing of the Demise of Dr. F. Logan, R.N., May 24, 1862, Aged 84 in The New Zealand Survey
- From youth I’ve loved society of the aged / Whose lives unite the history of my day / With the far past; whose tales have oft engaged
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- Yon majestic trees, / Which have for ages stood the stormy blast, / Are destined soon to feel the settlers axe, / And by it be laid prostrate, as they are / Considered now mere cumbrers of that ground / He means to turn to fields of growing grain; / A noble change indeed! Thus nature wild / Must wear another aspect, feel renewed / With civilization introduced, where once / The wildest solitudes supremely reigned!
- But whence this solitary race of men? / How have they here got planted?—may be asked.— / A race of savages without a date,— / Or record of their early history / To trace their lineage!—They’re ever prone / To deal in wonders, and tradition’s lore / Much mixed with fable, contrary to aught / That’s probable, or may be reckoned true; / Crude fancy’s pictures ever over drawn / On some poetic, but untutor’d mind, / Which would try to expound the reason why / The ancient sires got landed on these shores; / While facts with fictions of the basest kind / Are so comingled, no dependance can / Be placed upon each theory declared: / But what can be expected from such minds, / Whose ignorance was darkness multiplied? / Whose ideas, the shades of wand’ring dreams / Of evanescent nature, hard to hold! / Or like the ignus fatuus wand’ring wide, / And leading the benighted far astray / From the sure path,
- Cook’s visit was the prelude to a new, / Though seeming distant, era, in their page / Of blotted hist’ry, hitherto a blank, / As cut off from all knowledge of the world, / And social arts of peace!
- Your works shall shew where virtue claims to dwell / While musing o’er the past; for as in yore / The founders of a nation have been held / In awful veneration; so may you / Brave pioneers! of futute greatness, be / In th’ annals of the country held endeared!
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Stanzas — On hearing of the Sudden Demise of Mr. G. Copeland, on May 22, 1866, Aged 65 Years in The New Zealand Survey
- Ere such another time comes round, / What changes may succeed apace; / First colonists will scarce be found, / To tell the history of the place.
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- Thus ages upon ages as they’ve rolled / Unchronicled—save by the mystic marks
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- But can such various foreigners return / Each to his home, without some idea fresh, / By observation drawn from what to him / Is novel, worthy imitation? While / Through self-examination, as recurrs / To him his by-gone history, he discerns / Much that needs mending, and much to be chang’d / From present state of things, to introduce / A healthier atmosphere in what concerns / Th’ affairs domestic and political, / As all true patriots would, who have at heart / The welfare of their country.
- In this I see the hand of Providence / Marking the course of great events to come; / Aye such events, that will an aspect give / Unto the history of the world, which have / Been never dreamed of by the wisest sage / Deep read in politics; and who has conn’d / Th’ economy of nations, or the affairs / Of man, as he’s connected with the world.
- they come to read a page / Of British hist’ry, that they thence might draw / Instructive lessons on the arts of peace, / Of freedom, and of enterprise, conjoin’d; / With a high tone of morals, which pervade / Society as attendant, seen from high / To low degree, compared with all they know / Among their own,—as on an ample sheet / In characters both legible and plain / Laid forth before them.
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A Lay on Wanganui in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- By Wanganui’s stream I strayed. / Contemplating the scenes around, / Where much of interest seem’d display’d / And Nature’s beauties would abound, / All to the eye, and to the mind / Contemplative, a tale would tell / Of yore, while promises combined / For future, they’d declare as well!
- Reverting yet to ages past, / When upland plains around were clad / With prestine forests, dense and vast; / All not in man’s remembrance had. / Of which, appearances around / Are silent; as the tales of yore / Held secret,—mystery profound,— / As none were privileged such t’ explore! / But plougmen now, those lands who, till, / Find oft their plough-shares stick upon / Some vestage tree-roots left, whieh still / Would testify of forests gone!
- Thy hist’ry, buried in the past, / Would observation search around, / And mark developemeuts, —though vast— / Till to this state arrived, thou’rt found.
- Yon beetling cliffs of clay declare / Thou hast not always been as now; / These banks of scoria deep, would bear / There testimony strong, t’avow
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "History":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.