Poetry.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 396, 23 August 1856, Page 3

Poetry.

CHARADES ON UNPOPULAR SUBJECTS. No. Jut and last. The morning is all sunshine, The bridal guests are met, But the Father frets, the Mother fumes, For thtt, bridegroom comes not yet. He's h«re, and from tho saddle "With joyous haste ho springs, And on his charger's glossy neck My first, impatient, flings. The bonds that ne'er are broken Have joined those twain in one ; The words of blessing spoken— And from the Church they're gone. Oh! blest in youth, and hope, and love, May years ileet by as hours ; And all good Powers unite to strew Your second with life's flowers! ' i The mother gazes after With tears she fain would hide, As lessening in her straining sight Those two beloved ones ride. * I hear a plunge, a scream, a fall— And vain is human aid ; Among the pitfalls of my whole That bride is lowly laid. ANSWER. And pray what may the riddle mean ? I pray, kind reader, tell. It hath an answer dark, I ween, And deep (is bidden well. What is it makes the cross more cross, And stirs the meek to wrath ? What but the holes, and pits, and ruts That stud our Bridle Path.