THE BALLAD OF A GIRTON REFORMER.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 169, 11 September 1886, Page 1

THE BALLAD OF A GIRTON REFORMER.

. 1 , 'l ' A scutiTOß should have seen thy face last night, ' ' 0 -warrior Maiden, ,-vsrhp would'st fain en'gatfe' '" • Tbe world of , human woe in hopeless fight, , And with our myriad tyrants battle wage : Those, large, dark eyes, on fire with sacred * rage, - • ' The no.-tril winged, the cheek incarnadine ; . J>irhe might stamp for us that anger fine ' 'In marble t'oit, us keen, as pure, as cold, As are that kindling souFarid Drain of thine, Thou daughter of Diana, fair and bold 1 1 Methoughf !that in some foreßt still and bright 1 lay, in ble£t Arcadia's twilight age, When, suddenly, in filing raiment whito, • •v! } A fdrm,|pcd through' that bosky hermitage, y?iQ\ paimng breast no pity could assuage, A virgin-huntress of, thp ancient line, •*%Vh<i rafted her; boxwood bow, and made in- ! : -s/, tclinoj ••: "- ,i: Her pointed arrow to my heart. Behold ! , _ *Twas only tliou-- indignant, flushed, divine— • thotf daughter of iHarta, fan' and bold ! , \ f* it , i i,, • , i ■.Mas I thy.hope9.and holy angers light Hut tamely on my spirit, sadly sage ; d have acpn too many a rod-cross maid and knight"-^* ->7" ■"— " -- Start dauntless on this perilous pilgrimage, „ - -a^ 9d f #i-9l2fte-nettod in y the Foifer's cage; e-POV^e -P 0V^ 6t matracss in this world combine With tricks undreamed; of at the woodland shrlno } Thy silver armour is too frail and old ; '

j ENVOI. ' Princess, I praise thy prowess fcminin« ! - Such was the, maiden's in the Ago of Gold J - . StUi «oia»i lik<i them, *the spear,- still drag tho -1 **S? y f 5?? 1 3»nd als. .Ouit its rings entwine, , , "Thou daughter of Diana, fair arid bold !

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