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 Port Chalmers (above); Port Lyttelton (below)

George Sound from S S Tarawera (above); Silverstream, near Dunedin (below)

 He looked, and more amazed
Than if seven men had set upon him, saw
The maiden standing in the dewy light.

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

So those two brethren from the chariot took
And on the black decks laid her in her bed,
Set in her hand a lily, o’er her hung
The silken case with braided blazonings,

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

Thus he read;
And ever in the reading, lords and dames
Wept, looking often from his face who read
To hers which lay so silent

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

 Clockwise, from top left

A papa or covered dish

The koauau, a musical pipe

Baskets with Gods

The heru , or comb

The paraerae, a sandal or snow show

[Illegible] head of Waimakariri, with the Southern Alps, from the West Coast Rd.

The prow of a war canoe

An [illegible] food-store

A ko, or native spade

Left to right

Sir William Jervois GCMB, CB Governor of NZ

Otira Gorge

Major Te Wheoro, native chief. member of the NZ House of Representatives

 Mount Cook & the Hooker Glacier from the Müller glacier

 Eyre Peaks, L. Wakatipu

Ranunculus lyallii

Mount Cook Lilies

Next morning, while he past the dim-lit woods,
Himself beheld three spirits mad with joy
Come dashing down on a tall wayside flower

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

He spoke and ceased: the lily maid Elaine,
Won by the mellow voice before she looked,
Lifted her eyes, and read his lineaments.

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

Till as he traced a faintly-shadowed track,
That all in loops and links among the dales
Ran to the Castle of Astolat, he saw
Fired from the west, far on a hill, the towers.

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

And then they rode to the divided way,
There kissed, and parted weeping

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

...and from the skull the crown
Rolled into light, and turning on its rims
Fled like a glittering rivulet to the tarn:

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

 Then rose Elaine and glided through the fields,
[And past beneath the weirdly-sculptured gates
Far up the dim rich city to her kin;
There bode the night: but woke with dawn, and past
Down through the dim rich city to the fields,
Thence to the cave]: so day by day she past
In either twilight ghost-like to and fro
Gliding

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King

And Lancelot answered nothing, but he went,
And at the inrunning of a little brook
Sat by the river in a cove, and watched
The high reed wave

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

 ... but she to Almesbury
Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

He paused, and in the pause she crept an inch
Nearer, and laid her hands about his feet.

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

 They found a naked child upon the sands
Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea;
And that was Arthur

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

Top: Portobello, Otago Harbour

 Bottom: Sheep attacked by a kea

Clockwise from top

House of Representatives, Wellington

Matau or matika, fish hook

Whare - [illegible] (Winter dwelling)

Matau or matika, fish hook

 The Moa of New Zealand

Will the child kill me with her innocent talk?

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

 ...and the dead,
Oared by the dumb, went upward with the flood—
In her right hand the lily, in her left
The letter...

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

“O pray you, noble lady, weep no more;
But let my words, the words of one so small,
[Who knowing nothing knows but to obey,
And if I do not there is penance given—]
Comfort your sorrows

(Tennyson, Idylls of the King)

 Clockwise from top left

Freycinetia banksii

Moa, or Giganteus Dinornis

Moa feathers, found in [illegible] on the shore of Lake Wakatipu

Lake Taupo

it [illegible] 25 miles in length

20 in breadth

[illegible]

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