Original Poetry.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 8, 27 August 1874, Page 4

Original Poetry.

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Tbjjsk. ere you promise, for a 'promise . . - broken '. '•;" " ..' ■';;"'. ;' ; May waken Mistrust, who has slumbered ' i ■■■:= forbears, ''•"■'-"■ -■ •. <"-• -•'■-; Aha^Mistrust'a whisper, when once he has -spoken,; j„ .7 -. ':. ■ ■..',; <."■.•.-; , Will change a Bweet smile jinto sadness andtears'; „. . : _.. Few pleasures, can then chase the gloom from the mind^ ; For fast cleaves the gloom' which is brought with MistriisV The fond, heart is fast in his cruelhands , , . * twined, , ; And held till the " dust has feturn'd to its dust." ~ Think ere yon promise^ for one broken promise . Is amply sufficient your ruin to ensure 1 You should think well then, and be very precise . '. . - When making a promise— of this rest sure. > ... The false may laugh at you, scoff at you, -hate you, . . „,. ' . . . And try to injure you all that they can/ ; But truth, in the end, will make him respect you, '•'•.'..- ;' VIAnd own that you are the far nobler man. Think ere you promise, for when the word's given "-...";. Under no circumstance should it be -broken, And, if the heart should in sunder be riven, Always prove faithful to what you have spoken: "Never promise that which you cannot perform^" ' This, as a motto, take with you throueh life, ; c It will sieer you safely in sunshine ana storm, 4nd save from such rocks as scorn sorrow, and strife. ' Oh ! always prove faithful to all that you To all that you think, and in all that y6udo; 'Twill make threescore and ten like a

- summer's day If you take the advise here given to you ; And, (When by. the_;Great Judge you are inspected, You will notyjose, but rather gain by it then*^.. For God lojPi to see his image reflected In alljgpro are called the children of men. « \Mi H - E k M. Ba^gjkitha, Aug. 24. J v