ORIGINAL POETRY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1063, 8 September 1882, Page 3

ORIGINAL POETRY.

LMPOD'NDIN'f* of teie cows. We thought the times were very bad, far worse they are now ; Our horses will be impounded, and we canmot keep a cow ; They wiU not allow a dairy to give us milk out here ; The only excuse the squatters have, -they bought the land too dear. The squatters say the land is dear > that may he very true, But has the poor man for to leave or what has he t > do? Diggings wid not last always, that’s very .plain to see; But they should get encouragement and far more liberty. Twenty years ago, when the diggers first came here, They opened up the country and raised the land so dear. Mow we have cultivation great, and railways for to keep ; But then it was a wilderness and only fit for sheep. Old times are soon forgotten, and it often happens so ; But Dunedin looks greater now than twenty years ago. It does look more flourishing whenever we go down, At that time it was nothing but a scattered little town. It’s hard to blame the squatter, for the laud be had to pay. Between the digger’s rows rn rabbis they would eat the grass away ; But when they are at Wellington and having those gieat rows, They should have left a commonage and not impound our cows. M. Sam mom.