VILLANELLES.
Her garden, sweet with mignonette, Is brightened by a golden smile— O very dainty little pet! 'Twas thus -the earliest clay we met, I walked around and round a mile Her garden, sweet with mignonette. Her laugh is just a triolett — tSo very gay, so free from guile — O very dainty little pet! A flashing ring with diamonds set? I'd rather not; but claim awhile Her garden, sweet with mignonette. But there are other things to get— A country house, red-rooled with ti^e— O very danrty little pet! Well, anyhow, one need not fret: I I'll tend till I can raise a. pile | Her garden, sweet with mignonette — O very dainty little pet! ) 11. Some day the dream will come true; I Be it late or soon, what care! i This to the many and few. £ I Despite the deeds we rue, ■l^,"' I On face o' the fees to dare y j Some day the dream will come true. r J?ho' the world be no longer new, v And the secret has none to share — j This to the many and few. Ah, hardly a hope or a clue! '" But tho' the visions be rare Some day the dream will come tru«. O the love that I eagerly sue. And the -thoughts which are passing fair— Tins to the many and few. Is it I— what matter— or you? Is it love or hate or despair? Some day the dream will come true — This to the many and few. ' 1,. YON KVULBACH. "RHEUMO QUICKLY CtTRES RHEUMATISM." Read what Mr John Abbott, the wdlknown plumber and gasfibter, of New Plymouth thinks about Rheumo. He writes on July 6, 1907: — " I have taken Rheumo for Rheumatics, and consider it tho best remedy for anyone who suffers from Uric Acid — which is 'the main cause of Rheumatism or Rheumatic Gout. I can honestly recommend Rheumo as I have used other remedies. I have been a. resident in New Plymouth for over, 30 years, so that lam well known. I eha'j consider it a pleasure to acquaint anyone I know what Rheumo did for me. — JOHN! ABBOTT, New Plymouth." Your storekeeper or chemist sells Rheumo at 2s 6d and 4s 6d.
— "He was gored by an angry bull," wrote a reporter in describing the death o£ a farmer. "Don't be tautological," sad the editor. "Strike out the word .'angry';' of course, a pood-natured bull wouldn't «r such a thing."-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 80
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407VILLANELLES. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 80
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