SELECT POETRY.
TO THE BAKERS. Oh bakers with faces dusty and white, Oh dabblers in flour and dough, By the lamp’s red light, in the dark of night— Hear the oven’s burning glow. When the star of eve gives balm to care, W hen your moulding with your mate, The Tempter dare, let Justice be there, Be honest, my boysj 'give weight. Your buns may ba ni,ce, and your cakes be sweet, And your bread of the whitest kind— But if bakers cheat, it is just and meet that the flow’ry rogues be fined ! The rich rain falls, the potatoes "row— And the alum appears first-rate— And the corn-hinds glow, and mill-streams flow Then why do you give short weight ? Justice. Auckland, September, 1872.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 157, 12 November 1872, Page 7
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