Poetry.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 404, 17 September 1856, Page 6

Poetry.

CHARADES ON UNPOPULAR SUBJECTS. (Number Three.) With eager speed along the plain A youth and maiden ride; Fondly on her his pa«e is bent Unheeding aught beside; Ui.seen, far down the glorious west, The summer sunset glows ; Unnoted, to the evening breeze My first its fragrauce throws. He speaks at length—And art thou then Mine own for grief and glee, Aud wilt thou never once regret The wealth thou leav'st for me ? My second is a lowly home For one so fair as thou; Bat love shall smooth thy path and chase Each furrow from thy brow. They near my irhole, —that barrier past, Pursuit they may defy ; Oh, joy 1, to see its waters gieain Beneath the starlit sky. Why weeps the bride, her perils o'er? AVheuce comes that boding sigh ? Alas J upon the farther shore The punt lies high and dry! MOBAL, ADDBESSED TO FAEESTS AUD GUARDIANS. ' Tis true, yon miy say, That for once in a way The Ferryman's care was all right, For a ran-away pair, Whether here or elsewhere, Deserve to be stopped in their flight. Bo: remember, I pray, In this fabulous lay I have dwelt but on what might accrue, While the plague and the loss, We all know to our cost, Are both real, important and true. The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker, All find it detestable, very ; For their mutton grows bad. And their bread becomes sad While they wait at the Heailicote Ferry '.

Bikths.—On Sept. 10th, the wife of Mr. TV*. W. Harrison, of a daughter. —• On Saturday. Sept. 10th. at Hambleden, near Christchurch, the Avife of Mr. Geo. Gould, of a son. 3__BHi_D.—April 29th, 1856. at St. Sidwells, Exeter, by the Rev. G. B. Boraston, Vicar of Wendon-cum-Helston, Cornwall, "William Wilson Esq., of Wellington, New Zealand, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Lieutenant Parkes, E.N. -— Sept. 16th, at the temporary Church, Lyttelton, by the Bey. B. W. Dudley, Mr. John Bean, of Decanter Bay. to Miss Emma Bathurst/ .'''..