ORIGINAL POETRY. • — ~~~ ~~ A PICTURE. Pray let your fancy paint a scene— The details I'll supply— A scene not new, but striotly true, On that you may rely. First, then, you trace, in sombre tint*, A mansion on a hill, • So like a gaol it turns one pale, And seems your blood to chill. _ It's style of architecture seemi . Both doubtfal drear and*co!d : tt'i walls are hard, its windows barred, like castles were of old. And none but wretched bachelors Dwell there, you may be sure ; What misery they certainly Must live in and endure. What scenes of charming wives and homes Disturb them night and day : Scenes which intrude but to delude — Too soon to fade away. " Oh ! would," they ory, " that some fair girl Would pity on us take, And make us free from misery That soon our hearts must break. ■ Oh ! who would be a bachelor And live so dull a life, Denied that love sent from above— A fond, confiding wife ? " Fair maids of Lawrence, this app*eal Your tender hearts must chill. Oh ! heave a sigh when passing by The " mansion on the hilL" Lawrence, July 28, 1868. Q.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 25, 1 August 1868, Page 5
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