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Heather Earrings made with glass and silver ox findings.

Strung on brass earwires.

16mm drop.

You will recieve the earrings on one of our hand stamped, recycled cards.

From this isle in the wide Southern Ocean,

How oft does my swift fancy flee,

On pinions of love and devotion,

Dear home of my father, to thee!

In a land lapped in bright summer weather,

I sigh for one rugged and stern;

I long for the bloom of the Heather

In the Land of the Kauri and Fern.

Though here there is nought to remind me

Of the dark, misty land of my birth,

Not tears and not distance can blind me

To scenes that are dearest on earth.

As I list to the Tui's clear whistle,

I sigh - 'Shall I ever return

To the Land of the Heather and Thistle

From the Land of the Kauri and Fern?'

Though dear to my heart is Zealandia,

For the home of my boyhood I yearn;

I dream, amid sunshine and grandeur,

Of a land that is misty and stern;

From the land of the Moa and the Maori

My thoughts to old Scotia will turn;

Thus the Heather is blent with the Kauri

And the Thistle entwined with the Fern.

John Liddell Kelly (1850-1926)