THE GATES AJAR.
Ou the occasion of th birth of his first child the poet wn es : One night when old St. Peter slept, He left the door of Heaven aj ir, When through a little angel crept And came down with a falling ata*-. One summer as the blessed beams Of morn approacheit my blushing bride Awakened from some pleasing dream And found that angel by her side. God grant but this, I ask no more • That when he leaves this world of -in He 1 !! wing his way to that bright snore And find the door'of Heaven again. Whereupon St. Peter' not liking this interpretation of carelessness, thus (by a friend) replies on the part of defence : For eighteen hundred years an I more, I’ve kept my door securely tyled, The-e has no little angel strayed. Nor has been missing all the while. 1 did not s'een as y,>u supposed, Nor leave the door of Heaven ajar. Nor has a little an;el strived. Nor gone down wth a faliin.' star. Go ask that blushin: bride an) see If she don't fr.mk vow and say. That when she found the angel i.abe, Shu fouml it in die good ol I way. God grant hut this I ask no more, That shoald your n un i r s ill enlarge. You will not do as her -t- fore. And lay it to -Id Peter's charge. A T . O. Times.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1217, 26 June 1885, Page 3
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