Daybreak.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Daybreak.

The night seoms long, my Father, Shadows rise, And dirk across my pathway fall ; There is no lijjht of dawn in Orient ekies, And sorrow BhroucUrae Yrt? a pall : The stars of Faith and Hope so dim havo grown Oh 1 rift the gloom and send their radiance down. The morn waa fair, seen with glad childhoods eyes, A world of sunshine, love and flowers ; Not sweeter waa the bliss of Paradise, As onward fled the swift-winged hours, At noon I revelled in the sunshine still, And felt no prescience of the twilight chill; lam so tired, my Father ! The rough path Is strewn with wrecks of joys long gone ; I scaroo can lift my dim and weary gaze To watch the coming of the dawn. Oh 1 let me lean and rest against Tby Heart Till glorious day shall break, and night depart. —The Catholic World.

When Sir John Douglas, who was a great favourite with the populace, was contesting Glasgow, a dog began to b&rk at one of his meetings. A voice in the crowd shouted out : 11 Hey, Jook, is that your doug ? " To which came the wittj rejoinder, which set the house in a roar : " No, sir ; I'm ddug-lesa ? " In another contest, a certain member, being questioned by one of tho " blaok squad " as to what taxes he would take off, nettled hie questioner, to the great amusement of the audience, by declaring : " There is one tax I intend to take off for your speoial benefit, and that ie the soap tax." One more to conclude with. A sporting member of Parliament, who knew more about tho racecourse than the Senate, was asked, cut of puro mischief, by one of his constituents, if he would vote for the abolition of the Decalogue. In vain tho questioned one tried to solve in hia mind what the object referred to was, ao to him the Decalogue might be anything from a rajium tlouum gract to a settlement in the Straits of Malacoa ; but failing in this, and in order to sustain his own consistency, ho replied : " I won't pledge myaelf, but I'll give it my consideration."