ORIGINAL POETRY.
LAY OF THE ANXIOUS DEBTOR. (addressed to his confiding butcher.)
Air —“ Will you love me then as now ?”
You have told me that you trust me ; And you prove the words you speak, As you send the meat in daily, And the book but once a week! May I hope your kindly feeling Nothing ever will estrange, And this pleasant mode of dealing Circumstances ne’er will change. When you send a twelvemonth’s :bill in, And to pay I don’t know how, When you hear I’ve not a shilling, Will you trust me then as now ? Though a. month may pass unclouded, And you send what’s ordered home, Yet, as week on week advances, Thoughts across your mind must corner You will lose your old politeness, And reluctant fill your tray, Cheerful looks will lose their brightness When you find I never pay. When my debts have, pressed upon me, And my tradesmen make a row, Will the change find unchanging > Will you trust me then a 3 now ?
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 214, 25 October 1860, Page 4
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