POETRY

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 375, 16 July 1903, Page 2

POETRY

THE EVOLUTION OFLICOT. -,. When grandma was a little girl,:;;;';.. And was sent up to. bed* £T: She carried then a * tallow'dip," •■?£s Hild high above her head.' "-;" When mamma uted to go upstairs, After she'd said ' GKod night,' Her mother always held a lamp So ale could have its light. As soon aa sister's bedtime came, When she was a little lass. If she found the room too dark, Mamma would light the gas. Now, when the sandman cornea Jor,mg t . I like to bare it bright; So reach np and torn the key Of my electric light. A?d maybe my dear dolly, If she lives oat her days, Will see right through the darkness fc.With t>e magical X rays!. ---:.-- J ban MathkbSv, a V-~ "" • • ' s ' f fIEFATKA. -Alt Out on the hills in the mild tyring weather,' j- >f ', *g

. & elrly thaV,-oiftr ; »j of little fleers gacew togalgM.; fuik blue> How the sun shines warm and'under .onir They nod aßd Bmile, though branches are bare, . So daintily hued and faintly Bweet— What blossoms of summer are halt so fair? While the Ikrch storm raged and fretteg .1 and wept, if- J'A. And frcse the song in the blue-birds —«..-. -tiuroat***-- ..-».*«-*.;*«. ~" 'Neath matted leaf-blankets they soundly slept Close wrapped in their soft; fur overAnd the sweet old sermon is preached agsin . «'u _> f% Of life the doubters I *>f real; after etriggteaid g4e&»n* rw *" Thetextf" « l Tbe ; indeed I. —Vick's Magazibb