THE WEEPING MAIDEN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 2 May 1868, Page 4

THE WEEPING MAIDEN.

"Maiden, pray tell me why those tears Do sparkle in thine eyes, And wet thy cheek ? Oh ! say what fears Within thy heart arise ? , "Have friends proved false? or has some foe Traduced thy stainless fame ? Or hag the hand of fate laid low Some friend who bears thy name ? " Or has some loved one, dearer still, Thy trusting heart betrayed ? "" . Why do those tears thine eyelids fill P What afllfi you fair young maid ? " " Alas ! f kind sir, hut if you must Have me to tell the reason, I'm after peeling onions, jnst A mutton chop to season ! " Kate Hose, Dundee. Moses Datlite. Mr. iddytur, — the abur stances waß kumposed when eye was a Buoy at skool nut elcseedin 12 yeers of old. thay was aloud bye the Skoolmaster, 2 Bee a most remarkabil] produckshin, skarsely inferior Two tennysim bridge of size, the wards was set to moosicl and cung inn the skool as a marchin V>in> : altho I may Bfcait thay kan Bee cung to th< Ayr of the hunder Sam: to inkuridge me t< Iraltirait the mewses, the Skoolmastir pre • -Bentid Mcc With A bewfcyfool Kopy of gad & the Been stak, bownd inn k Kaff : that wa the prowdist momint of my life, deer cir eyi regret to say that eye am stil labrin undh i sereer Kofi" h. nut likely tv rekovir yet for ; ' feu daze j as v will sea bi the hand wrighf eye was agane kumpeld to ask my 2nd Kusii too noat down the above stances j trool; Wee v ( awl fttde mortOs ass the possil Pa' wyteli remarks, trustin this Wil find v i Ure yewsyill wae I remane yoor effeckshinsi felly crater, , M. d.