"MILK, OH!"

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1628, 6 May 1875, Page 3

"MILK, OH!"

I lately fed my wandering cows on grains. But Heaven lms kindly sent suoli gentle, rains, That glittering waters in their courses flow, And 'tween the gorse tlie tempting grass doth grow. So now the grains may all be put aside, And cattle graze amid the landscape) wide. But if my cows should crop the tender grass In Newton, Ponsonby, or Kybcr Pass, They're driven onward from the public ground, /' nd safely lodged within the district pound. But now kind Nature fills the muddy stream, And sends the -water—not to thin the cream— But to give smoothness'to my own made milk, With which each day my neighbours' babes I bilk. And for t'.iis act, which seems beyond belief, I'm called to aiiswer like some arrant thief; A nd though I 'scaped the court without a tine, Such happy lot, dear brother, may not be thine. Although defective is New Zealand law, In every Act may not be found a flaw. I in coolly told in open court, egad, That mixing water with new milk is bad; And that " Whene'er I take my walks abroad," Tha jieople by my mixture I defraud. But o'er such lectures I can loudly crow, Still water milk, and boldly cry " Milk, oh !"

Devonshire.