In Memoriam. HARRY KENRICK, Obiit. July 31, 1886.

Te Aroha News, Issue 166, 21 August 1886, Page 3

In Memoriam.

HARRY KENRICK, Obiit. July 31, 1886.

Awake my Muse, thy slumbered year 0 , re- i doom, Attune thy lyro to chant a nobler theme ! A t-tnigg-Hng soul has burst its bonds ot> clay, And winged its flight to realms of brighter day ; No more, 1o mortal weakness bound in chains, It walks exultant in othoiial plains. No longer pent M-ithin its eaithly coil Wheio pain deteis, and pi ogress comes with toil ; . Unfettered, free, beyond Time's sterile sands The mind develops, and the soul expands. The yearnings, suivings, of the, earnest mmd Their high reward and full fruition find. No teni for thee should dim the mourner's eye. Nor needs thy Jot the tiibuto of a «igh ; But oh, for no bereft ! Ould tt o .i)s control The -w.mdcnngs of thy Üb^s ;wd soul, ConltHonuvv chaim iiiuo from thy blo^t abode Thy shade had now- regained its cnilhly load. The people mourn. A MAN has left the e.uth, flis- noble s.-uIV aft lined its higncr biith. The oaithly • lamp where lires immoiUl burned, With solemn lites- to native dust's returned. No more Ins form shall fill th' accustomed place. No moie his feet then wonted piths -will tiace. The he.vi gin*\-, mo,mj as we pondoi o'ei . The Indian sminv of that s<id '' no mote." (> Upturn !'" " Ue.hu n !" in aceenth wild we , eiy, ''No nior," "No morf," the wnnvl'iin^ c,'alc- i«*ply. A !'is L'oi irs ! A :;o(ul man passed away! \\ hat wonder men should giieve and nioinn th<^ <Liy. T C<>\ boi.o^t manhood, ca^t in vutno'sinonld. Outbids in worth a boulkl nation's gold. The state ho nobly served, nor feared to tread I The uphill path where Duly plainly led ; | Nor frown nor smile could tempi his foot , to stray When Reason urged and Honor showed I the way. No fear rould shake, no prejudice could blind His honest' judgment, or mislead his mind, lie held the balance in Ins fhm li^bt hand, And weighed out justice at no man's command. 1 The wron^c redressed, the right he made prevail. For justice ever fi.l Ic^cl the sacred scale. Alike foi all, without distinction made, lie lived, ho toiled, he lent his constant aid, Nor censed his task when Death hadluuled his dart, And stilled the active brain, the thiobbingheart. A good man's life ends not with pm tingbreath, He lives, he works, he teaches after death: The kindly woul, the gen'rous deed, the . fight' That vanquished wrong, the struggle for the right, Shall live tor ever, and for ever cheer The diooping heart, the wounded sjdli it here. B. F. Thames, August, 1886.-— Thames Star.

A Methodical Ttaueller.— "When I pack my trunks," one day eaid Eugdne Chavette to Labtche, "I always forget something That is what prevents me from travelling.' Labieho shook his head and sentontiously replied, "1 never forget anything. You should go to work systematically, everything depends upon that. You see I first put my liaod to my forehead and say, comb, brush, pomatum, night-cap ; then I come to my oyes and say, spectacles, opera-glass, lens ; on getting to my nose, handkerchiefs, snuff; mouth, tooth-brush, tooth-powder; neck, comforter, collars, neckties; shoulders, braces ; chest, flannel singlet, gum pastille? and bo I go on down to the feet, socks, dippers, Ac. I then go back again and cneck off each article !" King Cophetua. — Cophetua was an imaginary king of Africa, of great wealth, a confirmed misogynist, " disdaining al) womankind. ■' But one day- " the magna nimouH and most illustrate King Cophetua set eyes upon a lovely beggar maid, all wat and poor she was, and clad in gray." Hei name ia variously rendered Zenelophon, 01 Penelophon. The king fell deeply in lov( with her, and swore a royal oath, " This beg gar maid shall be my queen." The adoring admiration of. Cophetua, and the deprecat ing humility of tho beggar maid wer( beautifully portrayed by Mr Burne- Jones in the famous picture exhibited this summei in tho Grosvenor Gallery. The romantit marriage was a most happy one,* and tht king and queen enjoyed through a long reign tho aiiection of their subjects. " King Cophetua loved tho beggar maid." Romeo and Juliet 11., 1 " Cophetua aware a royal oath, " This beggar maicl shall bo my queen. ' Tennyson The coloured boy— Blackmail. Causes in-tents^exeitemflnt — The circus. - A counter irritant— The woman who shops but doesn't buy.