THE TYPE-SETTER'S SONG.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 685, 4 November 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE TYPE-SETTER'S SONG .

The typesetter » andt boforo hU e»te, Tha l«mpi bum low and tin n'gftt t« tfaty : An* OT«r tin ita**a-inr ohtmney-«tack D^knek and rtudowi creep— . - ' And th» cttr «W '•' l Q «'« B P> Thstjp* wt'i-nund^thw* u»ual iwdgtar. With i}im old e>oB»nd • w*4ry brita; An I h» i\ (uc mljdci < Umn and lonr, To tha bo«t .f tb» bi t«r rain On tUi r-ittlla* Htyll«ht and pine Trouble tho r»f:ot». roY aad fl o •. A.s bo rtn<art tljj typ»=) ( la hi« d foUte way,. And InHM-«tb4 iniuo Ma ly tiua* S">q a tha Oiyhiun OTer th« way A.i re id ring l omsold-tim « lay . The old in in tlnff, and t'trabU the ftoon With th» billowing «ngt i« down b ilow, And ih« crash of ih» wbuttin? atle-birs And th* th tad«» that from th.-m groir, SobolQ| »H4 fro,

As be fingert the.typei (in hti duolste w»y) He «ets th«m up with "ctp ilcU-hsad ;' And * m»rtja of black encircle* hW work — The nimj of a m*n just dead; A lanl la the battlt ahed Lower and lowar the )amp-iightk barn, And grow the thadow* daskf and gra > ; And tbt itorm is huflhed and th« miulo'i iw«U At thi Orphan* ovor thn way, And (laiihxd tlw old-tun* l\,-. And tb« type let'er wlpei his dim old eyes Tlit type no mure with uu flo en more, And he taiiUi that, while «sttlnj th* uame below, The angel* la tcad.tr lore Were kitting it up abore.