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The Tui.

by Arthur Henry Adams

Arthur Henry Adams

Alchemist of melody,
Drop by drop distilling!
Hidden high on some tall tree,
Alchemist of melody;
With your liquid minstrelsy
All the forest filling:
Alchemist of melody,
Drop by drop distilling!




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