GROWING UP

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 361, 3 June 1874, Page 4

GROWING UP

(From " AU tlte Year Bound:')

«*Oh to keep them still around vi, baby darlings, fresh aha pure! "MotherV' •mile their pleasure's crowning " mother's " kiss their sorrow's cure ; Ob to keep the waxen touches, roanj curls, and radiant eyes, Pattering feet, and eager prattle— all young life's lost Paradise! One .bright head above the other, tiny hands that clung and clasped, Little forms,' that close enfolding, all of Love's best gift* were grasped ; Sporting in the sum)m«p sunshine, glancing round the winter hearth, Bidding all the bright world echo with their fearless, careless mirth. Oh to keep them! how they gladdened all the path from day to day, What gay dreams we fashioned of them, as in rosy sleep they lay ; How each broken word was welcomed, how each struggling thought was hailed, As each bark went floating seaward, lovebedecked and fancy-sailed! Gliding from our jealous watching, gliding from our clinging hold, Lo ! the brave leaves bloom and beurgeon ; Io! the shy sweet buds- unfold ; Fast to lip, and cheek, and tresses steals the maiden's bashful joy ; Fast the frank bold man's assertion tones the accents of the boy. Neither love nor longing keeps them ; soon in other shape than ours Those young hands will seize their weapons, _ build their castles, plant their flowers ; Soon a fresher hope will brighten the dear eyes we trained to Bee ; Soon a closer love than ours in those wakening hearts \rill-4§. So it is, and well it is so ; fast the river nears the main, Backward yearnings are but idle ; dawning never glows again ; Slow and sure the distance deepens, -clow and sure the links are rent ; Let us pluck our autumn roses, with their sober bloom content. BITS FROM BISMARCK'S SPEECHES. When pushed to extremes I prefer my shirt to 'my coat. — January 22, 1864. A question of right can be settled only with the bayonet in our European quarrels. — January 22, 1864. Parties and castes are mutable — they perish and new ones arise. —January 22, 1864, The kings of Prussia have never been pre-eminently the kings of the rich. — February 15, 1865. Whoever makeß the most promises is apt to carry the election. — June ], 1865. All classes do a little smuggling, especially the women. — January 15, 1867, A great country cannot be governed by partisans. — January 15, 1867 Put Germany into the saddle and you will find that sh^ knows how to ride. — March 11, 1867. Governments are like women, the youngest please the most. — December 9, 1868. It is not possible to hasten the ripening of fruit by holding a light underneath — April 16th, 1869. Centralisation is tyrany, more or less. —April 16, 1869. Whoever carries the money-bags is the people's master.— April 26, 1869. Every country knows that peace and security rest in the sword. — May 22, 1869. . Liberty is a luxury which not every one can afford.— May 22, 1869. People are a great deal more lavish when they pay out of a common treasury than when they pay out of their own pockets.— June 2, 1871.