CARPENTER'S LAMENT.
Ob, Parawai! Oh, Parawai! How cruel are the Fates! The Borough now must mike thy streets, And likewise draw thy rates.
I tried so Jiard lo keep you To mate with Waiotahi, . But you hare gone and left ns, Oh, foolish Parawai!
No dowerless maiden art tliou, For lorely is thy face, And, what is worse for us that's left, You've a whack of the water race.
Come Ho!li8, Bagnall, Aitken, Tliroyv.off that lefcharry. Revenge we'il have, 'or we will burn Old Dean in effigy.
Yea! Deoble, Greenville, Coutt* and
Brown,' Some bloocf I'll ha»e I vow, '" Tbe poet's saying haa come true, Wilkie hath triumphed now.
Ob, Farawui, ratnrp to me, And no one u» sh«tl sever, Bat Pdrawai, she waHt't on, • And answered "hardly erer,"
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3864, 18 May 1881, Page 2
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129CARPENTER'S LAMENT. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3864, 18 May 1881, Page 2
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