Poets Corner.
"{THE GRAVE-DIGGER'." Mot translated from " Der Todengraber " of J. W. Kalliwoda. *' Old man! old man ! for whom digg'st thoa this grave ?" I ask'd as I walk'd along ; JFor I saw in the heart of London streets A dark and a busy throng. ? Twas a strange wild deed!—but a wilder wish, Of the parted sotil, to lie fMidst the troubled numbers of living men. Who would pass him idly by T So I said "Old man, for whom digg'st thou tbis grave, In the heart of London town ?', And the deep»toned voice of the digger replied, " We're a-laying a gas pipe down!" Punch.
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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 15, 15 November 1843, Page 4
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104Poets Corner. Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 15, 15 November 1843, Page 4
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