SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 296, 2 October 1873, Page 7

SELECT POETRY.

THE LITTLE BONNET. A foolish little maiden bought a foolish little bonnet, With a riSbon and a feather and a bit of lace h upon it, And that the other maidens of the little town might know it, She thought she'd go to meeting the next Sunday just to show it j m > But though the little bonnet was scarcerarger than a dime, The getting of it settled proved to be a work of time; So when 'twas fairly tied all the bells had stopped their ringing, And when she came to meeting, sure enough the folks were singing. So this foolish little maiden stood and waited at the door ; • * And she shook her ruffles out behind, and smoothed them down before. "Hallelujah ! hallelujah !" sang the choir above her head — " Hardly knew you ! hardly knew you ! were the words she thought they said, This made the little maiden feel so very — very cross, Then she gave her little mouth a twist, her little head a toss ! Eor she thought the very hymn sung was all about her bonnet, "Vpth the ribbon and the feather and the bit of lace upon it, And she would not wait to listen to the sermon or the prayer, But pattered down the silent street, and hurried up the stair, Till she reached her little bureau, and in a bandbox on it, Had hidden safe from critic's eye her foolish little bonnet, Which proves my little maidens, that each of you will find In every Sabbath service but an echo of your mind ; And that the little head that's filled with . siily little airs, Will never get a from sermons or from prayers.