GROWN-UP LAND.
" Good morning, fair maid, with lashes brown : Can you tell me the way to Womanhood Town :" •' Oh, this way and that way—never a stop ; 'Tis picking up stitches granny will drop, 'Tis kissing the baby's troubles away, 'Tis learning that cross words never will pay; 'Tis helping mother, 'lis sewing away, 'Tis reading and playing, not wasting the day ; 'Tis loving and smiling, forgetting to frown Oh, that is the way to Womanhood Town."
"Just wait, my brave lad—one moment, I pray : Manhood Town lies where 'r—Can you tell me the way r" " Oh, by toiling and trying we reach that land: A bit with the head, a bit with the hand. 'Tis by climbing up the steep hill called Work, 'Tis by keeping out of the wide street named Shirk ; 'Tis by always taking the weak one's part, 'Tis by giving the mother a happy heart; 'Tis by keeping bad thoughts and actions down — Oh, that is the way to Manhood Town." And the lad and the maiden ran hand in hand To their fair estates in the Grown-up Land. -Auon. (F).
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 351, 8 October 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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185GROWN-UP LAND. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 351, 8 October 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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