ORIGINAL POETRY.
tyW WAS BQR# TO PEACE, When gentle Spring's ethereal bloom Made fields Add forrests new,- - - At evo I listless wandered by ; The banks 6f Molyneux. ' * The snn, that shed a golden food Of light on fiill and tre«, Spojk* tnily of a God above,— Sweet solaos brought to xhe. Were mankind wise, ye all might ba In pleasure's lap carrested: For nature's h*nd pnough bestows To make vi truly blest. $cc yonder worker at hi 3 toil : ' He whistles as he goes ; ' JI« knows no grief, no care ; His hearf ne'er oppressed with woes. And when at c'en his toil is o'er, *He homeward gladly turns ; For there is aye the light of love,— ' A light that ever burns. Proud' man to be a slave was ne'«r By nature's hand designed ; Then why should weak and puny man To eartb, bis brother bind ? .0 were mankind in youth but taught The wicked path, to scorn ; For then experience would show That man to peace was burn. Beaumont p.B.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 49, 16 January 1869, Page 6
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170ORIGINAL POETRY. Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 49, 16 January 1869, Page 6
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