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New Zealand Mail, Issue 47, 16 December 1871, Page 18

And though no stone may tell Thy name, thy worth, thy glory, They r.st in hearts that love thee well— They grace Britannia s story. THE COUNTRY LIFE. Not what we would, but what we must, Makes up the sum of living ; Heaven is both more and less than just In taking and in giving Swords cleave lo hands that sought the plough, And laurels miss the soldier s brow. Me, whom the city holds, whose feet Have worn its stony highways, Familiar with its loneliest streetIts ways were never my ways. My cradle was beside the sea, And there, I hope, my grave will be. Old homestead!—in that old grey town, Thy vane is seaward blowing ; m, i... -e ~„.;/l,.v, efvnf.fhfia flown THY Slip 01 gmucu D v*~-~-To where the tide is flowing: Below they lie, their sails all furled, The ships that go about the world. Dearer that little country house, Inland, with pines beside it ; Some peach-trees, with unfruitful boughs, A well, with weeds lo hide it; No flowers, or only such as rise SeUsown-poor things !-which all demise, Dear country horne ! can I forget j.no leasi. ol i»«j - The window-vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles ? _ Tho roadside blackberries, growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian Pipe ? Happy the man who tills his field, Content with rustic labor ; Earth does to him her fulness yield, Hap what may to his neighbor. Well days, sound nights-oh ! can there be A life more rational and free ? Dear country life of child and man ! For both tho best the strongest, That with the earliest race began, And hast outlived the strongest : Their cities perished long ago ; Who the first farmers were we know. Perhaps our Babels too will fall; If so, no lamentations, For Mother Earth will shelter all, And feed the unborn nations ! Yes, and the swords that menace now Will then be beaten to the plough. —Prom B. H. Stoddard's Poems. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. IHE PRICE of this Journal will be 5s per - quarter, paid in advance, or 6s 61 if booked. Intending subscribers are respectfully requested to forward their addresses without Cloay * THOMAS M'KENZIE, Proprietor. THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL. CHAIRMEN AND CLERKS OE ROAD J BOARDS are requested to send for insertion in the above journal brief minutes or reports of their proceedings. ~ . . . Advertisements relative to road district meetings, tenders for road-making and repairs, and all other notifications required to be published in a newspaper wild be inserted at the low charge of 2s 6d per inch for the first insertion, and half-price for every subsequent nsertion in the New Zealand Mail Independent and New Zealand Mail Office WLlis street. BETTS'S CAPSULE PATENTS. TO nrevent infringements, notice is hereby given, that BETTS'S NAME is ON EVERY CAPSULE he makes for the princi>al merchants in England and France, thus cabling vendor, purchaser, and consumer, not only to identify the genuineness of the Capsule, but likewise the contents of the vessel to which it is applied. The Lord Chancellor, in his Judgement, on the Bth that the Capsules, are not used merely for the purpose of the ornament, but that they are service-able in protecting the wine from injury, and injuring its genuineness. Manufactories:—l, Wharf Road, City Road, London, and Bordeaux, France. t-ERYOUS DEBILITY—A Gentleman, lfter years of suffering, has discovered a m'pl'e means of self-cure. He will be happy to forward the particulars to any sufferer on receipt of a directed envelope and postage in New Zealand stamps. Address—Mr Horace Bromley, Post-office, Melbourne. HpfcEAFNESS ! !—Tho undersigned having I / been for years hard of hearing, procured hrough his brother, a banker in England, a recipe from the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Ear, Dean-street, Soho, London, which Las entirely cured him, and will be happy to correspond with anyone similarly afflicted. T. B. HANNAFOBD, Land Agent, High-street, Auckland. TVR. WILLIAMS'S NEW ZEALAND _U DICTIONARY.—A Dictionary of the Now Zealand Language, to which is added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences. By the Right Rev. W. WILLIAMS. Third edition, with numerous additions and corrections, by the Yen. Archdeacon W. L. Williams. Bvo cloth, price 10s 6d. AUCKLAND: UPTON & CO., CANADA BUILDINGS, And all Booksellers.