LIFE’S DAILY ROUND.
... THE WALLFLOWER. .. Why tin's flower is now called so,List’ sweet maids and ye shall know. Understand, this Firstling was Once brisk and bonny Lasse, Kept as close as Danae was: Who a sprightly Spring-all loved, And to have it fully'proved, Up she got upon a wall, ’Tempting down to slide withal: But tho silken twist unty’d. Love, in pity of the deed, And her loving luckless speed, Turn’s her to this Plant, we call Now, the Flower of the Wall. —lt. Herrick. ■Jf * -X- * There are Clod’s poor and the Devil’s poor; the (irst from misfortune, the second from vice. •X- * * * For one man who can stand prosperity there are a 1 ’ hundred that will stand adversity. —Carlyle. * -X- * * Our friends see the host in its, and hy that very fact call forth the host from
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1930, Page 1
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139LIFE’S DAILY ROUND. Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1930, Page 1
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