THE QUEEN AND HER CRITICS.
Her Majesty sat at her ease one day, And road what the newspapers had to flay Of her latest work, which had handed down To a deathless glory the name of Brown. She read them all with a beaming smile, For they praised the matter and praised the stylo: And sho laughed as she thought, were she not a Queen, How different some of thorn might have been. But prosently when her ladies went To a newspaper shopon the sly sae sent For all those papers that ran her down And chaffed her book and its hero Brown. She read them through with a slight grimmaco, And a shade stole over the pleasant face, For the truth was told in a rasping style That the evenest tomper well might •• rile." But she felt in her beart a gleam of pride That she ruled a people who dared deride The book that came from a royal hand— < 'Twas a change from the gush of the toady band. Sick of the torront of courtly praise* This " slate " in her life was a novel phase; • t She Vowed to avoid them in Number Three.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 52, 31 May 1884, Page 5
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197THE QUEEN AND HER CRITICS. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 52, 31 May 1884, Page 5
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