THE VILLAGE POET'S FIRST POEM.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1628, 9 December 1882, Page 4

THE VILLAGE POET'S FIRST PO EM.

IJI-f /«»! I "'f- 7<>Vl/>. 'it Tho following is the humorous wail of a <jufteni|g poet on reading m^jHvbt poem as printed in a country uuWhpupGi :— 'Ah J'Herp it'is ! I'm famous now — HS An author arid a poet ! ' t 1L really is in punt 'I Ye gods ! '.' Mw 'proud I'll \h to shim- it ! t, < A'n'd gentle Hannah ! What a. thrill , .Will animate hot' breast. To road these ardent lines, and know To whom they aio addiesscd. AYhy,' bless my soul, hero's nomctliitig bfcr.uigo ; What can the paper mean By talking of the guiueful luooks That yonder o'er tho green ? And heie's a t instead of r, Which makes it ttpplniy rill ; We'll seek the t>hid ins>tea'l of t>hade, And hell instead of liill. They look s>o — what ! I recollect, Twas sweet and then 'twas kind ; And now to think, the stupid fool For bland has printed hhml ! Was ever such provoking work ? }V Tis curious by-the-by, How anything is rendered blind By giving it an eye. "J-Jast thou no tears ?'' The t's left out, ''Hast thou no eun ?" instead ; ( "I iiope that tliou art dear" is put "I hope that thou ait dviiW Who ever saw in such a space 80 many blunders erannned ? "Those gentle eyes bedimmed" is spelt " Those gentle eyes bedammed ?"' j '■ The colour of the lose '' is no*", " Affection" is a ajllultvti ; I A\ onder if the likeness holds In fact us well as diction ? "Thou ait a friend," the ris gone — Who ever would have dee:ne<) That such a trifling thing could change A " friend " into a Jit ml ; Thou are the " same" is remitted lame — It really is too bad ! And here because an i is out, My lonely " maid " is until ; They dtovc her blind by poking in An eye — a piocess new ; And now they've gouged it out again, Ami made her ciazy, too. Let's stop and 1 eeapitulate ; l'\e tin in mid her eyes, that's plain ; I've told her she's a lunatic, And blind, and deaf, and lame. Wnb ever such ahoriid h.ibh in poetiy or piosc ? I ye .said she was a fiend, and piaiocd Tlie colout of licl nose I I a\ ish I li id tli.it editoi About a halt a minute ; I'd Ijiing him to hi^> huait's tontenfc, And with an h began it