THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET. (By Gerald Massey.)

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2006, 16 May 1885, Page 4

THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET. (By Gerald Masse y.)

Old England sits in her inland homo, Peerles-, .vniong the Pcci ■< ; And liberty to her arms doth come, To ease her poor heart of feais. And still she throbss with the muffled fire, Of a P.i-»t -the c in never foigut • And again shall her banner the world hold lusher ; For there's life in the old land yet. They would mock at her now who of old lookt foith In tht'u f. ar, as they heaid her afar; But loud will your \eil bj, Oh kings of the Earth 1 When the Old Land goes down to the wax. The avalanche trembles, half launched .and half nven, Her voic • will in motion set ; 0 ring out the tidings, ye Winds of Heaven ' There's life in tne Old Land yet, The old nursing mother's not hoary yet, There is ba,) in her Sixon tree; — Lo ! she lifteth a bosom of glory yet, Thro' her mists to the Sun and the Sea. Fair as the Queen of Love, fresh from the foam, Of a Star in a dark cloud set ; Ye may blazen her shame,— ye may leap at her name, — But there's life in the Old Land yet. Let the storm burst, it will find the Old Land Ready ripe for a rough red fray ! She will fight as she fought when t,he took her stand For the right in the olden day, Ay, rouse the old Royal soul : Europe's best hope Is her sword-edge by \ictory set' She shall dash Ireedom's foes adown Death's bloody slope ; For there's life in the Old Land yet.

"Mysofhobia (a fear of dirt) is a new disease." The Buffalo stieet-cleaning contractor was vaccinated for mysophobia. — Buffalo Express. O'Dynamit*. Ro^sa sayi Mrs Dudley is as sane as he is. This comes about as near being the truth as anything Rossa has »aid for a long time. Tiny Tim, a grade Hereford ox, nine years old, exhibited at Chicago this year, weighed three thousand two hund-edand twenty pounds. Six months previously be weighed one hundred and eighty pounds more. Sir Joseph F\yrmi, formerly SurgeonGeneral of his army in India, sa\s that things in England are not so bad in a •amtary point of view as they are sometimes represented to be, and refers to the fact that while in the fiist pait of the present century the d«. t ith rate was forty in the thousand, it is now only twenty in the thousand. This great deetea«e he attributed chiefly to the piogiess of sanitary science, although the work lias been done in a scattered way, and more may be amimplwhed in th^ tuture by the co-operation of the persons and organisations engaged in it. When the la*e Oneral Gordon was ■erring in the Crimea with the Engineers three young officers came under Ins notice whose intrepidity excited his attention and admnation. Thirty years Save passed, and in the meantime these three Lieutenants Wolseley, Roberts, and Stewart, have distinguished themselves and become famous Lord Wotaeley is commanding his expedition oiigmnlly planned to release Gordon from Khartoum. The van of the advancing army was held bravely by Sir Herbert Stewart until he fell at Gubat, an 1 the thud lieutenant is Sir Frederick Roberts, who is at present holding hi?h command in India, A Disappointmknt. — A rather good story is told at the expense of a gallant general commanding one of the English out-districts. At the time when the Snakim expedition was being got icady he was summoned by teleyiam to London. No appointment as Commander-iu Chief of the Suakim force had as yet been made, and he went to the War Office full of high hopes. These hopes were still further raised by the fiist words the Duke said to him, " I have sent for you, General , to risk you if you are prepared to accept the command of — " The General's f.ico beamed in anticipation of the high honour about to be conferred upon him. "The command," went on the Duke quietly. "of the Volunteers at the Brighton Review." I believe the now disappointed general declined the honour. What made the disappointment the more bitter was that this pal lan t officer had, as a matter of fact, been talked of for the Suakim command, and he knew it ; but the selection was not approved of in certain higher quarters. Mark Twain's Proposed Visit to Australia — The special correspondent of the Melbonrne Argus wrote from New York: — "I had the pleasure to-day of visiting Mark Twain at his home, Hartford, Connecticut, and found that he had long wished to visit Australia He had recently, with Mr George W. Camble, an author of high standing in this country, given leadings in the principal cities of th« States, and the tour was so success ful that he received £(JOOO as his share of the pioiits. Major J. B, Bond, of this city, was his anager, and hopes to accompany the giftert humourist to our country. I was able to them full particulars of the voyage anostj the Pacific, of the means of internal tiav piling in the colonies, of the cities, and otherwise to pout them up on matteis of inteie&t. Mr Clemens said at the conclusion of the conversation that it was almost ceit.im that he wonld visit Austialia next year, as the only obstacle to be sin mounted wai the unwillingness of Mrs Clemens to undertake so apparently long a journey. He would go this year had he not contracted business obligations with ex-President Grant, who h.is written an autobiography, which is to be pub lished byj^nirm in which Mr Clemens is thf* yfltrapal partner. The first volume iato be produced in December, and the second in March. After so busy a life, Mark Twain rinds himself snbject to lazy fits, and although strongly inclined to go to Australia >vith the object of writing up his tidvels. .t may happen, he says, that one of those fits will prevent that purpose b ing cuiried through. To lessen the 1 >boi.r, hnvever, he will take a shorthand wi'ter to tecord hm notes, aud thus incieast' the chnnces of the work appearing. His principal object in visiting the colonies will be to give rea Hugs, and to set" a country where he is sine he has many friends.

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