THE COMING BUDGET.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 69, 25 January 1879, Page 3

THE COMING BUDGET.

A poll tax ! Thank you all the same, With that we can dispense; Let natives mild the burden bear, In truth we have more sense. A tax on poets ! Good idea, To some a hitter potion ; The hint, I own, came from Berco, Arao ! Likest thou the notion > A tax on aspirants to power ! Ah ! now I see some eye-brows lower ; I'aid in advance it would ere this Have lilled the Treasury chest. ()h bliss .' A tax on broken vows 1 Tho land you would arouse l!y such a stern programme You'd not be called a lamb. It is not a good toll, Stcinberger heads the roll, Then comes Maniea bold Who somebody bus sold! A tax on broken hearts would hurt Them only proved untrue ; Apia hol'N a desperate flirt, He certainly can coo! A tax on every broken head ! A goodly crop wo soon may find, We will not by the nose be led, To our own interests we're not blind. There's many a slip 'tween Cup and lip, At least so says the adage; We only ask to bo allowed Our own affairs to manage. " Live and let livo," Tho hint I givo, May it be taYu Without disdain. And may our Premier never rest Till ho has filled the Treasury chest With wealth untold " 111 British gold ! I'kek Tkade.

Good night sweet songster of October rhyme Long may you live in this congenial clime To deal in ire, recant ami call it praise, Then others hid thy judgment hear, and no further hubbub raise. You meant do harm in what you said; good, let that be past; For all that still, to thy farewell, I now will say my last. () roaring poet of true love, politics, and open war Of themes insane, of praise, stars and bar, You now will find a far abler baud than mine To crush, if you attempt again thy politics ami poetry divine. May you reign long, to judge confounder of all the nine, Undisputed poet laureate of the longeared kind. !.•••■ [For the sake of fullering humanity at large, we are glad to hear good night upon this subject.—Ed. 8. T.j