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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4 (August 1, 1929)

Oriental Bay (Wellington)

page 61

Oriental Bay (Wellington)

Blue and mauve, and purple distance …
Sunshine … golden Day.
Pale mists trailing lilac curtains,
Where long rollers play,
By the rocky shores that cradle
Oriental Bay.
And the ocean-liners creeping
Homeward from the deep-seas way;
Pass with slow propellers churning,
Pass by Oriental Bay …
Creep by Oriental Bay;
Where the circling seagulls play,
Where the errant breezes stray
Through the lacquer'd gold of Day …
Down by Oriental Bay!
Fog and mist, and leaden stormwrack… .
Murky gloom of Day.
Rain and sleet and hissing Southwind,
Skies of ashen gray
Cast a pall across the face of
Oriental Bay.
And the angry waves are racing,
Plumed in vicious spray;
Striking fiercely at the beaches
Guarding Oriental Bay …
Screening Oriental Bay;
Where the screaming seagulls sway,
'Neath a murk of sullen gray
Stretched across the face of Day …
Down by Oriental Bay!