WOMAN'S TONGUE
Sometimes plea?injr, often times teasing, In the centre linng, Beth ends nasrgiiifr. never flagging,— Such is woman's tongue.
None can stop it, 'less they lop it, All that's said or sung, Gravely, quaint y, can but faintly Paint that awful tongue.
Strange, too, is it, diseases visit Heart, and chest, and lung, But nought I know of stops the flow of That perpetual tongue.
A shrewish wife wrecks many a life, The sons of men among : Unhappy man ! you never can Escape a woman's tongue.
But perhaps I'd best let matters rest, Or mayhap I'll get stung By some elastic, keen, sarcastic, Everlasting tonym , . —A. F. in Sydney Bulletin.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 479, 25 February 1881, Page 3
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111WOMAN'S TONGUE Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 479, 25 February 1881, Page 3
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