ORIGINAL POETRY.
TRUE NOBILITY. I'd rather be a peasant, lowly bdrn, Than owe my honours to a bygone m6e, than wear the titles oft too proudly worn, TFMch one through generations past may trace, it stamp's man's ignorance upon his face, And shows his very emptiness of mind, To hear him boast— too oft, alas, the case — Of titles his forefathers left behind : These are but worthless honours blown by For-, tune's wind. More cause has he to boast, more cause for pride, "Who, in his very strength of mind and soul, Sweeps all those cloudy barriers aside That round his worldly path in darkness roll. When he has reach'd ambition's cherish'd goal, And won himself an honourable name, That man, compared with him, is but a mole, Who wears the title he as heir doth claim, Who from a father's tomb plucks off the flower of famer JAQCES. X/astle-street, Dunedin, May 27, 1870.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 125, 30 June 1870, Page 7
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154ORIGINAL POETRY. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 125, 30 June 1870, Page 7
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