VARIOUS VERSES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8214, 18 August 1906, Page 3

VARIOUS VERSES.

FOKGET THE YESTERDAYS.

■Forget the yesterdays! What strength can come from vain regrets For what now caunot be recalled? What help from past mistakes have warning? He who now forgets Fast error and is not appalled IBy fruitless recollections of the . buried dark and dead, But in the present, hope anil strength Builda better now for brighter eorro<v, and with gaze ahead, Presses undaunted down the length Of life's to-day, the course where racers are not valued by The lecurd of some helpless past Hut. bv the honest effort in the present, duty nish— He wins the fairest crown at last. t > ■ 1 WHICH LOVED BEST? 'X love you, mother,' said litlle John; "TheD, forgetting his work, his cap went on, And he was off to the eardeu awing, And left her the water and the wood to bring. 'I love you, mother,' said rosy Nell; •JL love yon better than tongue oan tell.' Then shu leased aud pouted full half the day, Till her mother rejoined when she went to play. *1 love you, mother,' said little Pan; •To-day l'lfhelp you all I can; How glad I ain there's no school to-day!' 'So she rocked the babe till asleep It lay. ' Then stepping softly she fetched the broom, And swept the floor an<7 tidied the room; Busy and happy all day was she, Helpful and happy as child oould be. - «I love yoa, mother,' again they said. Three little children going to bed. How do you think that mother guessed Which of them really loved her beat? THE SHIP OF STABS. ! 1 stood alone beside the. shining »ea, And watched the sea-gulls' flight from blue to blun, -And o'er the waters wide enfcreatingly I stretched my hands to you. Around the lone white cliff th 6 white wings flew, The little wares that danced and gang for glee, But no white sail 3'irijes o'ei the blue, To brings your thoughts to me. My heart alone beside the shining sea Echoed that strange, sad note"; the sea-gulls' cry— No' Ship of Stare' sets sail from yoa to me: Farewell! Goodbye! ;Samuel Daniel, Pall Mall Magazine. THE IRISH GIRL. '

As I walked oat one evening Down by a river aide, While gazing all around me An Irish girl I spied; A rosy red was on her obeeka. And coal black waa her hair; And costly were the robes of gold This Irish girl did wear. The little s&oes this maiden wore Warn of a Spanish Drown; The mantle, on her shoulders, Of silk 'twas wrought all round. Her modest face, her gentle ways, Have left my heart in pain, And I'd range this world all over My Irish girl to gain. I wish my love waa a red, ved rose, To bloom in you garden fair, And I to be the gardener, That rose would be my care, I'd tend the pretty floners all round— Sweet-william, pink, and rue, Primrose and thyme—but most of all, Sweet rose, I'd cheristi you. I wish I was a butterfly, I'd light on my love's breast; I wish 1 was a nightingale, To sing my love to rest;. I'd fiing at mom, I'd sing at eve, A long-song, sweet and low; And year by year I will love my dear, \ Let the wind blow bigh or low. —lrish Peasant Song, by P. W. Jojoe, T.P.'s Weekly. WHAT A WELL-KNOWN CHEMIST lIAS TO SAY OF I)R. SHELDON'S NEW DISOOVEUV. April 7th, 1904. Sheldon Drug Co., 15 0 Connell-streefc, bydney, N. fc>. W] Dear Sirs, — Last week I took home a bottle of Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Cough3_, • Colds, and Consumption. I obtained this for my two boys aged seven and four •years. The elder lad had a nasty troublesome cough and cold; the other a bad cold and a cough just beginning to trouble him. They each took yonr cough remedy, which, ■ by the way, they liked immensely, and in two days the cough and cold of the younger boy had entirely disappeared, having been cut short in good time, and at the end of the third day the elder boy was absolutely cured. Being a chemist for yeare, iam naturally somewhat antagonistic to proprietary and patent medicines, but in this instance I must recognize and acknowledge the efficiency and merit of your excellent preparation, and give credit where credit is due. I was greatly pleased with the marvellous and striking curative and scothing properties of your admirable remedy, which I will add, from a pharmaceutical standpoint, is splendidly compounded. —Yours faithfully, CHARLES A. FINCH, Ph. c.;m. r.s., etc. Kuranda, Boyce-street, Glebe Point, Sydney, N.S.W. For sale by H. E. Eton.Masterton, .1. Baillie Carterton, and Mauriceville Co -operative store For Coldsin the Head and Influenza, 'Woods'Great Peppermint Cure, JL/6 -2/6 per bottle.