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 BONDI STANZAS.

WRITTEN ON A VISIT TO BONDI BEACH, AFTER AN ABSENCE OF SOME YEARS.

Bondi of the surging waves, The snowy sands and twinkling shells! Again I greet the sea that laves Thy sunny beach, thy coral dells!

How often, in my boyhood's day, When Fancy soar'd on new-fledg'd wing, I've lov'd to list the sounding lay Thy rolling waves incessant sing!