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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 July 1873, Page 11

SELECT POETRY.

"ACCEPT THE SITUATION." If Disappointment dogs your steps It's hard to help repining, But small, philosophy it shows To go for ever whining ; Having done all that man can do To make or win occasion, Come ! just without too much concern Accept the situation. Whether from Fortune's gilded car You happen to he tilted, Or whether by a handsome girl You happen to be jilted, .Don't dedicate your heart and lungs To useless objurgation, Bu*, picking up your limbs and — heart, Accept the situation. If friends whom you, through thick and thin, Have oftentimes befriended, Should sink their sense of gratitude "When those good deeds are ended ; Remembering there's no bitternessHow sad the observation ! like the rancor of once bosom friends, Accept the situation. Suppose the motive for your act , Has been a brave and true one, That's just the reason why some folks Will coin a false and new one, And shrug the dubious shrug, and drop The sly insinuation — But, trusting Wight and •waiting Light, Accept the situation. Your heart was set on some grand scheme— With heart how hope increases !—! — When lo ! it vanished like a dream, And tumbled all to pieces. You cry because of milk that's spilt — A fruitless operation ; Drying your eyes, likewise the milk, Accept the siiuation. If your achievements with your hopes You find by no means tally, No wonder, when comparing notes, You feel in general smally. Some born to follow, some to lead — Each has his destination ; Mine to command, yours to obey — Jcept the situation, rid is full of ups and downs And many curious turnings, And some weak men are only clowns For all their weak heartburnings. Better the lowly, if it's true, Than the loftiest pinchbeck station ; The True's a rock can stand a shock ; Accept the situation. Life's train is whirling past, old boy ; In what class do you journey ? First, Second, Third ?— the speed's the same ; If Third, First needn't spurn ye. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dusr, ! Behold the final station ! Now then we may, but then we must, Accept the situation !