Excerpt from The Huia's Homeland, and Other Verses Will they draw Closer around them Their purple in Britain the Free, Hoarding their praise for their home-born, These fine folk far over the sea? Upraising proud, pencilled eyebrows Amazedly, Can this thing be Colony-born, and a Poet?' Cry fine folk far over the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.