ORIGINAL POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 52, 6 February 1869, Page 6

ORIGINAL POETRY.

I lines' ' I poToposfd imnudiatdy after, fkt Poverty Bqy ■ ■' ' Massacre.' '" '"""•'■ ••' ■ v 7pie hour of trial's coiqe at fyst, I Of terror aad dismay, I Stern ruia .stares us in the facq, I PUguisQ it as we may ; I Misgoverniiiont Los done its work, ■ And now, on ruiu's brink, B The cup o'ucJuindsi have' mingled m~ Wo in bitterness must drink. H Etu^b&mlcd i^iufd^r stalks Jvbroac^, Defying God and man, Britannia's spe^ir. is i\\ the r^ar, Tjlat should be in the yan ; the. yells of cannibals, % ■ Tlie'British yeoman dies, I His wifo and cliildven butchered, I Before bis glaring eyes. \S^ froclaim a feast among the saiota, X Within Exeter Hall, W T^t burning homesteads smeared with bjpod, po painted qn th? wall"; Eet them, dance round an effigy Of the pod of the HauJiaus, V A British matron's bleeding heart j Within hiß horrid jaws. i Tho want of brain and want of will, I Amongst pur irablic men, [j Has tucued the Ipyoly Southern Islg mL. Into an bgre's den ; I men who bore a sqldier : a »word, W: Like cowards ran away, m- ' While deeds were done without a name, I Thai shames the face of day. I v A day of reckoning yet will come, ' -. ?Eo" those that live by sp r 0)l ( L Who-fatten on calamities, W And desq|ate the soil ; ( ' ptago has her traitors, too, * Who v?gll may veil theii facg, Their deeds a scandal and a shame, F-_ A bye-word and disgrace. ißj&j^ New Zealand was a mine of wealthy, '"SJ^* A jewel pf tl>e Crown ; What is it apwl alas, alas J i^ -Tis orush'd and broken down. K/'N^ Pttjess the people, in,tiieir mighj;, H^^^tf! Sweep put corruption's den, Hp^^^Phere is no hope, s|ie .stUl must W I And ne'er piay rise again. ___ j\ V Janusiry, 18C9. Pbajgif^p, ,