YES OR NO

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 95, 28 March 1885, Page 7

YE S OR N O

You ask to night my daughter's hand, As you'd request n toy — Do you know the weight of your demand On a mother's heart my boy ? ■ You say you love her wildly; well, Will it las' to the end of time, Or will the ring of the wedding bell Resound it's dying chime ? The heart you crave is a holy thing, So tender, trusting, true ; Can you to her devotion bring As warm a& her's to you ? Will you love her through the changing years As tenderly as now, When ills shall pale, or sorrow's leara Becloud her sunny brow ? When age shall bow h«r graceful form, And bleach her jelty hair. Will you protect her through each storm And shelter her from care ? When time shall dim her sparkling eye, . And winter furrows show, Will your love be the lii^t to die ? If not, I answer— No. Remember that her future life Would every day be yours ; A loving woman when a wiLe, To one whom she adores, Has no existence of jut own Ap.irt from him she iovus ; She liven henceforth for him alone, And in his orbit moves. She moulds her wishes to his will, Her ways to his desires ; He leads her by love's willing web Through life's refining fires ; Hhe w.ilks with him through thorny fields And o'er life's rugged road, He his her idol and ideal, Her guide i-nd household god. So if your love will live and burn And blessher future years, If you will give her in return The trust her life endears, If you will guide her destiny, And shield her from distress, Will always live adoring her, Why then, I answer— Yes.

Howard Puul tells a good stoi'y of fin Irishman who, in a moment of penitence had aeceped the blue ribbdn. Looking fora beverage which, while riot intoxict.-* ting, would ' take hold and bite,' he came fierce a bottle of Worcestershire sauce Pouring out h third of a tumbler of the pungent stuff, and filling up with lemonf\de t he swallowed the, mixture at a* gulp. Aftef several gasp<i he exclaimed { 4 be-BOi-l tnd tmlt beats all tho whisky I ever drunk in my life !'