A RETORT TO MR SMITH, For his Poem on the Kiwi Mill s Proprietor.
Ah ' let v* dream of schoolboy days, Loig passed and from oar memory fitd, Wherein we sang prime latin lay* We cribbed from thois oar seniors led. " Hie, hoc, pons Aiinorum," Oh time be praiied, How strong redoiindi to mm I ouch elastic tit, When from tho dtik aloft our eyes we raited T> me>'k*j chime poets natcitur nun-fit. iThoie roots that'r»ntitied our bruin, And made as stupid and ul . ost mtane, Hbth sorung, and tapped poor Smith'i pootioTein, # While lot io thought he Wdn< •red bj the l»nJ. - Beut on tiul.ouy, loosed iro tret and tare, Or dealing pins ami tapei to Itdies fair ; From »melU of rancid but,ier^-foul and rare, To breaths Piron_;ia'a pure and healthful air. "Ei pede hrtrculem, Oh true quotation, Would (hit Smith wjuld ponder o'er this well, Eitrnot, fro h 'bee in pure and wife rotation Thoio clttiiio truths it dooa so deeplj tell. &. B. Bkibe. ■ E vwi, J"«bruar / 9tb, 1876.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 582, 12 February 1876, Page 3
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171A RETORT TO MR SMITH, For his Poem on the Kiwi Mills Proprietor. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 582, 12 February 1876, Page 3
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