A WISH : TO R--J--.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 114, 14 April 1870, Page 7

A WISH : TO R-- J-- .

I wish I had an income of ten thuosand pounds a year ! What would Ido with it ? yqu ask just listen

and you'll hear. I'd buy a beauffeiful estate, aud settle down for life, And make "some one that I know well" a ) happy little wife; JT& keep a coach and horses, that my Rose and I f might ride, And half a score of servants, o'er our household to preside : I'd have a lovely garden, full of Nature's fairest fiowers, Where my sweet Hose and I would sit and spend the happy hours— And 'mid the perfumed roses, clad in Nature's colours gay, I'd kiss her pretty lips, by far more beautiful than they. Oft when a man plucks off a rose, the briar's sting he mourns ; But I might kiss my lovely Rose without the fear of thorns. I'd kiss her, aye, a thousand times, and then I'd kiss again, And life would be a pleasure, not, as it is now, a pain. Our king would be young Cupid, whom we ever should obey, And bow like loyal subjects down before his potent sway ; For, should we e'er attempt to play the traitorsubject's part, With his golden-feathered arrow he would shoot us to the heart. That land of flowers a paradise upon earth would seem, More beautiful than Eden, or a summer evening's dream. All sorrow we would banish from a paradise so fair, And nought but happiness, and joy would find an entrance there. But mortal wishes all are vain ! else who would e'er be poor, And all the bitter pangs of humble- poverty endure ? Could human wishes be fulfilled, this, would be nothing odd, The peasant would become a king, the king become a god ; The poor man would be poor no more, but roll in wealth untold, For beggars would be millionaires, were wishes turned to gold.

Jacques.

Castle-street, Dunedin, March, 1870,