ROSE, ROSE, COAL BLACK ROSE! (Moori)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 624, 20 May 1876, Page 2

ROSE, ROSE, COAL BLACK ROSE! (Moori)

Sik,— In a recent isguo of your valuable journal occurred a lon^ local about "pheasants." Ii thai paragraph or local ajipoars tbo following sentence to which my atfcontiou has boeu drawn by a U'lywell vcrsuJ in the pooto :— "Tho ren'oiiiing six brace v.ere fine birds, of excellent flavour, tho remembrance of which still hangs about tho palate hko lite scout of tho roses rouud the biokcn vase. (Slukespcre)." Nou,niylady friend objscts to jour quoting Shokosperc, even though in jo 3t 3 as she maintains that Tommy Mooro is tho author of tha beautiful idea contained in "tho scant of the loses round the broken vase." In proof sha refers to the soog " ITurewnll," one of Mooro's, and from which 1 quoto tho following lines :—: — "Long, long bo my heart with such memories fihM! Like tho vaso in which roses havo onco been distill'd— You may brosk, you moy ruin tho vase, if you will, But the scant of tho rosos will hang round it still." Tommy Mooro is then tho author of the idea go aptly applied by you in the article nbont pheasants, their flavour, etc ; and the lady who ht;s drawn my attention to the matter, expressed a wish to oeo a correction. Do, please, Mr Editor, comply with hor irisli by iniorting thii communication. I may remark that yaur " Cambridge Correspondent" would hare boon made the medium of this coirectiou, had tho lady m question met him in time.— l am, &o, Eoac. •Hamilton East, Hoy 19th, 1876.

AtrcriON Sale.— Mr John Knox will sell i<o day, at West Hamilton bi-ickyuid, at 12 o'clock sharp a quantity cf barnt bricks (hi kilu), 1"'?uiiil aud brickyard iw|iu»ikv. ; tlao a ',uai.fcity of hotisohold fui-nitutc, u> .ful 'sewuic -^ cliino !.'«

Trui:AKv^\.~\Vo are glad to feolhat <n* iin of tie other day has called io.lh it 'corr"p>n<3cnr. from (lie Iri-Wcn vorcs^ of thw %Z: unknown,™* of UioWfi^o, 1u.6 "no wjneb, if not cutoff by want of 1-o.vL, nii S ht. ri, k m sp.-ord Jo nono in ngncultural and pisloraU cr.lt>! rtul l>ros|^ity. Our corrcGpoDdent'j leltri is unavoidably hold over.