LAMENT OF A BENCH SLAVE
«. Squatting daily o'er bench astoop 5 Vision dimmed behind a loupe 5 1 jiving in a land of ruts i Poking at a watch's . Glass in eye I .sit and gape, Horrors plain and fancy shape ? What is it that chains me Mending time from year to year? How F hate that little pet, Tliat makers call a 'baguette' > A monster this in Hell designed To send a poor old .sinner blind. It seems I am a sillv i'ool Sticking to this blasted stool. Slaving—in a worker's age—■ For what is now a lousy wage. Loking back it now appears Mine were wasted 'prentice years 1 should have set a different goal ; And learned the art ol hewing coal. "Bohunkus" (From the. New Zealand Horological Journal).
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 8
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131LAMENT OF A BENCH SLAVE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 8
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