The Wellington Exhibition.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 140, 19 May 1885, Page 2

The Wellington Exhibition.

. The Wellington > Industrial. Exhibition will have its formal openingon Saturday Bth August. , . ._ The following is the opening cantata proposed to be sung on the occasion : —

Ye men of every land and tongue ! unite with joy to-day, In emulative zeal and hope, to freely tribute pay .; To Industry's ennobling shrine inaugurated here, In fair New Zealand's -Colony, where glorious appear . :/■ j_ • • j Rich stores of arts industrial, of mankind's rarest choice, That tell of Labor's lofty aims with deep and mighty voice. ■ ■ .' -' How swiftly may the head conceive —

conceive m rain a plan, ■■ If , many willing, cunning hands, uniting to a man — Refuse from lack of laborVfoye to work, but idly find In some ignoble pastime, sport for body and for mind ; To labor is the lot of man : his works his . lasting fame : Ten thousand varied monuments per* petuate his name. . / From Time's remotest era Man, by dint of earnest toil, Hath wrought hit stadf ast upward way with sweat and weary moil ; And earth, kind imother earth, ne'er fails „ : , i to w.ell perform her. part, Where Man with dauntless will e'er strive : , with brain and gallant heart To make the arid deeert bloom and blossom as the rose, While swift-directing mind and hand their mighty tasks dispose ; Promoting beatific peace and plenty through the world, Where'er our glorious Standard wavos, triumphantly unfurled ! (Orchestral Interludio.) Arise ! New Zealand. tak^Jthy course through ages on to fame ; Attaining 'otongst earth's greater Powers a bright illustrious name, i Scion of a mighty Empire! while by noble deeds ye rise, The emblems of all virtneo rarfe, 'neath earth's cerulean skies, .•• ■;. . ■ • The sweet, the manly of pur race shall surely yet be found, „„ : Shedding for aye Light, Truth, and Love 'midst hallowed peace profound, ■ i ■■■■■: Reflecting those attributes shining with lustre bright around: :