AFRAID.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 97, 11 April 1885, Page 7

AFR AID.

Some people can never get on, L -t their cli.mou be as good as it may, They stammer, and shuffle, and stick Where others will dash right away ; They say it's fur want of check, That the world isn't properly made, But it's pluuk and not cheek that they want. •'Yes, the truth of it is, they're afraid. A man will set eyes on a girl, And think her divine and all that, But he doesn't march up there and then, And tell her his mind smart and pat; He hums, and he haws, and he blushes, And day alter day is delayed, Till at last some one weds her right]off, Yes, he's lost her by being afraid. There's many a man with good hands, That can work with true strength and true h kill, Gets shunted aside just because He'll not push where another man will ; He sweats and he grouns in the mud, And Jets himself sink into shade. Yet he might have been famous and rich, If he hadn't been soft and afraid. There ure men who are upright and true, "W ho hhut themselves in theii' own den — They daren't step into the front, And tuke up thoir stand there like men ; They live and grow rich out of sight, And never are known but in trade, they might have bu^n honoured and blost II they hadn't been still and afraid. Stand up then, and don't be done down By cheek, and by swagger, and brag, For a man should stick up for his rights, Whether wealthy or not worth a "mag ;" The God that made one has made all, One heaven to us all is displayed, And if a man does what is sight There's no one need make him afraid.