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TO THE DUNEDIN LADIES, You ladies of this bumptious town Who flaunt about at ease, You little seem to think about “ The battle and the breeze In which your toiling husbands Have, day by day, to fight, That in the deadly scramble They may approve their might, O strip thee of thy gew-gaws, And keepers be at home, And gird thee to those duties That will not let thee roam. And shew more wifely sympathy With them in their sore toil, And when they wearied reach their homes Have on your sweetest smile. Do, do, your part of love, to ease The heavy weight of care Which trading over done compels Ev’n honest men to bear. Share all'his cares. Incorporate Be thou of all his mind. Thy place to smooth all roughnesses Of whatsoever kind. And thy reward is sure to be His heart and spirit braced, Thy social life made more real Aaid all thy joys increased. 13.
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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1933, 16 July 1869, Page 3
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161Original Poetry Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1933, 16 July 1869, Page 3
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