SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 22, Issue 277, 22 May 1873, Page 7

SELECT POETRY.

PROVERBEEL FEELOSSIFY. [fkom bhymes in the west op englaxd dialect, by agrickler ] > t oa man es wise atliout a wife — that's true and not no viction. Vor the very peth o' wisdom es got at by conterdiction, And that's one raisin wy I beant zo wise as Zolomon ! 3ecas thay zay he'd lots o' wives and I got only one ; But spwite of Zolomon's example meake one wife suffize Vor teant by no means elthy to be more than common wise. No man es wise as thenks lie is — jest taike that as a rule — And a self-appwinted taicher es vust-cuzzen to a vool. . . . When, a man do brag o' honesty (noa zign can well be wuss), Button up your britches pocket, and be kerful o' yer puss. Two thengs come awver I like a leech that's touched wi saalt, .1 judge as shaws no marcy, and a man without a faalt : And as vor faaltless winimen, perhaps you mid a seen üm, But them o' that sort mooastly dies after their mothers wean üm. If you wants to borry money, and hant got nor a vriend, Dooant never goo to them chaps as do advertise to lend ; And ef yo've money got to lend, jest tiake a vriendly hent, And rever lend to he as offers twenty-five per cent. Vor even ef it zhould be paid, it only proves the rule, One o' the two must be a roague, and tother one a vooL . . . "Wi' regard to wars and vitins, I mid be wrong or right, But one theng's perty clear, it tiakes two to make a yight ; Adp ai vor miakin one o' thay, I'd never hey *f» roun,' 7 lm§s I wer shpur and sartin I cud knock the tother down. And ef the tother wer the siame opinion as I, He'd be a blessed vool to stick up there and let ma try. Zo ef my plan wer carried out by booath the grate andsmaal, I zomehow thenk there'd never be no vitin not at all. Devence but not deviance es noo onmanein whim — Doant never vight — but allus kip yerself in vightin trim.