THE POET’S CORNER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9098, 19 March 1908, Page 6

THE POET’S CORNER.

““ ““AN arrival. There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on. I looked, and looked, and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water And moor herself within my roomily daughter, O ray daughter! Yet, hy these presents, witness all, She’s welcome fifty times, And comes consigned to Hope and Love And common metre rhymes. She has no manifest but this: No flag floats o’er the water; She’s rather new for British Lloyd’s— My daughter, O my daughter! Ring out, wild bells—and tame ones, too; Ring out the lover’s moon, Ring in the little worsted socks. Ring in the bib and spoon. Ring out the muse, ring in the nurse, Ring in the milk and water; Away with paper, pen, and ink— My.daughter, O my daughter! —G. W. Cable.