THE FARMER'S WIFE

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 4

THE FARMER'S WIFE

The farini'r cum* in from tho field one day, His languid step and his wenry way, His bended brow and and sinowy baud, Vll showing his work for tho good of tho laud For he sow, And he hoes, And ho mows All for the good of tho land. By the kitchen fire stood his patient wife, Light of bus homo and joy of ins life, With face nil aglow and busy hand, Picparincf the meal for hor husband's band ; For she- must boil, And she must broil, And she nitct toil, All for tho .sake of tho home. Hun shines blight when the farmer goes out, linrls sing sweet hongs, lambs fiisk about, The bru'ik babbles softly m the ffl' <n i While ho works bravely for tho good of tho men. For he sows, And ho lmes, And ho mows, All for the good of tho Innd. How bnskly the wif« steps about within — The dishes to wash and the milk to *kirn, The fuo goes out and tho flies \nu.r. about — Km dear ones at homo her heart is kept htollt ", There aro pies to make, There i« br»\id to bake, And stops to take, All foi tho .sake of the home. When the day is o'or and the a\ cuing has come, The creatures are fed and the milking is done, He takes his rest 'neath the old hhade tree, Fiom the labour of tho land his thoughts are free ; Thoupfh ho sows, And he hoes, And ho mows, J|> re«ts from the work of the land. P>ut the faithful wife, from sun to sun, Takes the bidden up that's never done ; Thoie is no rest, there is no pay, Foi tho household good who must work away ; For to mend. tho frock, And to knit the sock, All for tin* good of the home. And the ciadle to lock, When the autumn is hoio with chillinc blast, h Tho fai nirr gathers his crop at last, His b,uns aie full, his fields sire kue, For tho good of the land he ne'er hath care, While it blown, And it snows, Till the w inter goes, Ho tests from tho woik of the 1 md. Hut tho willing wife, till life's closing day, Is tin < Inldien's and the husband's stay, Fiom day to day she has done her bo--t, Until doath alone cm give her rest. For after the, test Conies the icst, With tho blest, In the funnel's heavenly home.

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