A MAIDEN'S "PSALM OF LIFE."
By Shortfellow. Tell us not in idle jingle '• Marriage is an empty dream," For the girl is dead that's single, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! life is earnest ! Single blessedness a fib ; "Man thou art, to man retumest" Has been spoken of the rib. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow Finds us near our marriage day. Life is long, and youth is fleeting, And our hearts though light and gay, Still like pleasant drums are beating Wedding marches all the way. In the worll's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb driven cattle, Be a heroine—a wife. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act to the liviDg present ! Heart within a»4 hope ahead '! Lives of married folk remind us, We can live our lives as well, And departing leave behind us Such examples as shall " tell." Such examples that another, Wasting time in idle sport, A forlorn unmarried brother, Seeing, shall take heart and court. Let ur, then, be up and doing, With a heart on triumph set; Still contriving, still pursuing, And each one a husband get. • Saturday Advertiser.'
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Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 99, 27 November 1878, Page 3
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214A MAIDEN'S "PSALM OF LIFE." Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 99, 27 November 1878, Page 3
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