QUATRAINS FOR QUARTER-DAY. [From Punch.]
We have Hv'd and lov'd together In the cottage of content ; But I'm sure I know not whether We ever paid the rent. We watch'd the daylight going To the west on golden wings, Then without our landlord's knowing We slyly moved our things. We have seen the dark ey'd stranger Still watching our abode ; We knew that there was danger, For we thought of what we owed. We have seen our assets dwindle Down to our final sou; You felt that we must swindle, And I always felt with you. What a flinty heart pervades men, When they look on one that's poor : We have seen the stony tradesman Who would never trust us more. Let us cross the Scottish Border, Leave the lion in his lair ; For not c'en a judge's order I'm told can reach us there.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 306, 5 July 1848, Page 3
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145QUATRAINS FOR QUARTER-DAY. [From Punch.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 306, 5 July 1848, Page 3
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