THE STOMACH ACHE.
" The Beating Heart," " The Throbbing Brain " Are fancied ills of life, To many mortals weave a strain, With these delusions rife ; No ills of brain or heart I sing : Another road I'll take, And tune my harp to nobler strain : Hail ! lordly Stomach Ache ! "We've trod the beaten path so longAnd it has grown so smooth — One feels afraid to start a song, Some other ill to soothe ; Through countless ages men have heard, Although in different rhymes. Of broken hearts, and all such fuss, A hundred thousand times.
Diseases of the heart and brain Mo&t men would laugh to scorn, And rather have a broken heart Than bear n painful corn ; They don't believe such things exist,
They have no hearts to breakThen sing of something commonplace, Such as— the Stomach Ache. For this I know they will admit— Who hath not felt its power ? Tlie strongest minded of them all Beneath its rod will cower ; Friends, do you know some stubborn soul "Whose wi'' you cannot shake ? Don't ask if he believes in love, But in— the Stomach Ache.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 208, 25 January 1872, Page 7
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184THE STOMACH ACHE. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 208, 25 January 1872, Page 7
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