Once in our clematis days your hooflets trampled tamariki-a-Tane:
rimu, totara, miro, ti, kahikatea, nikau,
startling the tui from the kowhai, the ruru in the kauri.
Then the settler's wife, lingering in the tin privy after tea,
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At first this sounded like it might be something like The Old Grey Mare, She Aint What She Used to Be. But no it was much, much deeper. At first I thought I might find you in France. But no New Zealand, now how did that come to be? Referring to the Flag ID. Good Job Adeline