POETRY.
The following amatory poem appeared in one of the very earliest numbers of the Melbourne “Punch,” at least fifteen years ago. The singular comicalities of the real Australian similes and expressions embodied in its composition, so utterly at variance with all Old World methods of treating subjects of so tender a nature, will be fully appreciated for their applicability, humour, and truthfulness, by Australian and antipodean readers, although calculated, perhaps, to excite the surprise and incredulity of the “ new chum,” pure and simple : POEM: EEDICATEP TO WATTLE BLOSSOM. Ah ! not more gay at break of day, T he laughing jackass hails the dawn, Than thou, my dear, with music clear, Go’st singing forth at early morn. The plumage on the raven swan Is dull beside thy shining hah ; More sweetly coy is my soul’s joy, Than even the little native bear. Then, ah ! be mine ; no more decline : < )r I through grief myself will shoot. For wanting thee, alas ! I’d be More v,retched than the baudrcoot.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 87, 11 July 1871, Page 6
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167POETRY. Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 87, 11 July 1871, Page 6
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