WE ARE NOT MISSED .
-♦ — — If you or t ! To-day should die . The bir-ls would • -.imo'to-snorrow ; The vt'Hi.il mvin; Her ll<> wees u<m!d bring, And few would think of us »vith wrrow. Yes, he is d« 'd, Would then be said ; The corn would floss, the i>rass u'eld hciy, ThocittVlow, And suinnx-r go, And few would heed v.-> pass away. How soon we pass ; How few, alas ! Bemember those who turn to mould ; "Whose facoh fade, With Auhimn .shade Beneath the sodden r-hurchyard cold 1 Ye*, it is so — We come and go ! They hail our birth, th -y mourn us dead ; A day or more, The winter o'er, Another takes our plac;; instead.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 67, 13 September 1884, Page 7
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113WE ARE NOT MISSED. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 67, 13 September 1884, Page 7
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