BABY AMY.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 622, 9 January 1872, Page 2

BABY AMY.

By Lancelot Booth.

Baby Amy's calmly sleeping In her basket cradle there j Loving mother watch is keeping O'er her darling baby fair j Sunny smiling, joyous weeping ! Sure the angels bright above, With that mother, watch are keeping O'or her pledge of wedded love. Little Amy's sweetly dreaming, In her infant, baby way, That with cherubs brightly beaming She's sngaged in angel's play : Flying, sweeping, speediug, soaring Through rare dreamland's magic space; <md her tiny throat is pouring Baby songs with childish grace. Baby Amy, tired of playing With the angels in her sleep, Opes her blue eye 9, as tho' saying, " At mamma I'll havo a peep." Laughing, crowing, tossing, throwing Chubby arms in happy glee ; Chuckling, suckling, ail so knowing ; " Who would not a baby be." Baby Amy, little creature! Tiny fashioned living toy ! Innocence in every feature — Father's pride and mother's joy. She no trouble knows, nor Borrow ; May they ever strangers be : Bright to-day and bright to-morrow — May her life all brightness be. Baby Amy ! dream on, slumber : Childhood is the sweetest life— Hours ol pleasure without number ! Be thou happy, maid or wife. And, as now , thou'rt calmly sleeping, May the angels bright above Round thee always watch be keeping-— Loving, loved, naught else but love. Sunny smiling, joyous weeping! Sure the angels bright above Will with mother watch be keeping O'er her pledge of wedded life.

The JSruec Standard, speaks of a farmer who refused to pay for his admission to the Agricultural Show at Tokomaiairo in the following terms :—" We had the misfortune, on the day of the Show, to notice an instance of narrow-mindedness and illiberality on the part of a farmer who occupies and owns land not a hundred miles from Milton, which surprised and disgusted us ; and we can only hope such, a spirit does not exist to any extent a-1 mongst this class of the community. Iffrit did, we should altogether despair of* the futuro progress of agriculture in this | locality. This would be-farmer—will it j be believed P objected and refused to pay the single shilling at the gate, on the ground that the Committee of the Show could not legally compel him to pay, the Kecreation Ground being for the free use of the public. Without in any solitary instance contributing a farthing to support these shows, this person, whom, we presume, entitles himself a farmer, would yet, on a mere quibble, take advantage of the energy and liberality of others by witnessing the result of their efforts for nothing.