ORIGINAL POETRY. "HOME, SWEET HOME."

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1350, 24 February 1881, Page 3

ORIGINAL POETRY. "HOME, SWEET HOME."

There is an isle — a bonnie isle — That decks the western sea : Where beauty dwells in eve.y scene, Though not all bright, but free. Its valleys clothed in emerald green — High, high its mountains rear ; I love this isle— this bonnie isle — For my childhood's home is there. Its noble sons, in battle fierce, Are warlike, bold and brave ; Their honest hearts are proud — not one Would yield to be a slave. Its daughters, virtuous and good, Are beauteous, sweet, and fair; I love this isle— this bonnie isle— For ray childhood's home is there. And though in foreign climes I be, My memory back will roam, To that dear isle, 50 sweet and fair, Where lies my native home. Though other lands more sunny are, Erin— for thee alone I care. I love this isle— this bonnie isle — For my childhood 3 home is there. Te Awamutu, Feb. 21, 1881.

Speculasors will do well to paste the „bit of philosophy as propounded by Josh Billing«; "AH that I pno abot good or bad luk ia this— oar good luk we attribute to oar shrewdness, our btid luk we charge over to sombody else's account." AjMobilb paper desoribes-a young lady with haip "as black' as' a raven's."* {The ravens weren't wearing any hair to 1 apeak of last summer, but we suppose the btyle h»s changed this year. n , „ .. ' \ A labgb meeting of women has.^ee^ held at Nottingham to agitate for the removal of the political, disabilities' ofwomen. ,- - ~ - i