Ode to the Parawai Orphanage.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3378, 20 October 1879, Page 2

Ode to the Parawai Orphanage.

'There is an Orphan Homo, Say will yon go ? To sco thoso fifteen orphans small All in a row : But fchoso children havo their woes, Although thoy hav'ut any clothes, Ami where they'll get them no one knows-— Then bow, ladies, sew. Thcro is a Indies' l)co At the Parsonage, Whero congregated you may sue Work in every stage. Oh ! how those ladies chat While their sowing they are at, Young and old, and thin and i'afc, In this good work engage. There is soon to bo a. ball, A la calico, Ladies now I nced'nfc ask, j I know your all. will go, Lovely gowns you must obtain, To captivate each sighing swain; And oh! may every ono exclaim I'll danco in calico. At this Homo there ig, you know, A very able dame, Who must trot those orphans out To feed and clotho and,name: Oh! how those infants j'oll When they hear the dinner-bell, Vor thoy must dig, plant (wash, cook, scrub, plough, chop, darn, stitch, hoiu), bow and fell, Evoiy day the same. And there the dazed Committeestand } llosigned to their fate; For they must get some older handj That ground to cultivate. Their little plans are all defaced, , With live good acres lying waste, Until those infants do make haste, To grow to boy's estate. There is a moral dry, Beibro my tab 1 close— Don't send to Parawai, Children without clothes. Dmi?fc trust Committees, who all say, Orphans must work eight hours a day ; Or else they'll wish themselves away, Before they get their clothes. iirmr Cu)VJ»e»