Poetry.
(Selected.) THE CHILDREN. Ah! what would.the world he to us H t] ie children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind ns Worse than the dark before. DIKES. T ask not, — When shall the day be done, and rest come on? I pray not That soon from me the “ curse of toil” be gone ; I sock not A sluggard’s couch with drowsy curtain drawn. Hut give me Time to fight the battle out as best I may ; And give mo Strength and. place to labour still at cvcn- ■ ing’s gray; Then let mo Sleep as one who toiled afield through all the day.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 2, 8 April 1893, Page 4
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106Poetry. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 2, 8 April 1893, Page 4
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