Origninal Poetry.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 277, 15 June 1860, Page 4

Origninal Poetry.

CHRISTIAN AND SWORD, BIBLE AND SAVAGE, With fond hopes all blighted and heartfelt regret, I mourn for a beautiful flower,. \ Which this climate's dark storms have cruelly .wet . And spoiled in the space of an hour. 'Tis °"one then! and mourning will never restore wtiat destruction, hath given the grave; Yet who can but weep when a virtue no more flath no power to keep or to save. Then blest be the savage he, seldom is cursed And allured by an underhaudsaint ;■ For, 'mong the flowers in his path interspersed He's scarcely a cause of complaint. Down his cheek it is seldom there rolls the hot tear,

Or his bosom's disturbed by a sigh; And little but age doth his comeliness sear, Or quench the bright beams of his eye. But " still he's a savage "■ all chri-tians exclaim, " And scarce a remove from the brute." .. Amen! there's many such bearing the Saviour's name, Which 'the wisest ;cau never refute. ■ Such Christiaua assert it, but how can they prove, Than the savage they're better of heart, ~ When with weapons of death they teach Christ s

dyinc; love. ■ And in Wood the first lessons impart. Also "good comes from evil,".the piou<s record, Andthey point to the various lands Where the Bible has followed the Christian's swoal, And the "means" have been blessed in their hands. Oh! -what, presumption, what folly, what sin-ru , , To kill, though a savage he be; ''.'.,. : And then reach the scales with expedience in, With " it's all in my favor, you see." I own as a seer, it is little I shine, , . But from prejudice ever SpartrIt is seldom expedience guides at the time, But it's lucre that governs the heart. Should they wish to improve the poor savage mind^ I'll say if they do not know how, The sword must be broken, and there must be joined The Bible, the Word, and the Plough. , , % H.