Poems From the Port Hills (1923)
by Blanche Edith Baughan
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Poems From The
Port Hills

BY

B. E. BAUGHAN

Author of
“Shingle-Short, and other Verses,” “Reuben, and other Poems,” “The Finest Walk in the World”, etc.

Whitcombe & Tombs Limited

Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington, N.Z.
Melbourne and London

PREFACE


Of these “Poems from the Port Hills,” “Sumner Estuary” has been published in the London Quest; “Beauty for Ashes” in the Sydney Bookfellow; “Escape” in the Indian Pradbuddha Bharata; and “Through the Pine-bough” was given to the Christchurch School of Art, N.Z. The right to re-publish in every case is now used with grateful acknowledgment. “Hope” has been privately printed, but the edition has long been exhausted.

B.E.B.

CONTENTS
Page
Hope 5
Beauty for Ashes 20
Sumner Estuary 22
Escape (Clifton Hill) 26
The Blind Lama 27
Past the Pine Bough 29
The Summit Track 30

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1923, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


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