LAY OF A CITY SEWER.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 241, 13 October 1886, Page 4

LAY OF A CITY SEWER.

(Dedicated Without Permission to thk

Aucklind City Father..)

I silently crawl through a populous city, Where thousands of vict inia my cdours inhale; , , , I've small apace to travel in, Oh, 'ua a pity Irannot spread more of my balm on the eulo. Decayed flesh and tumors my bosom delightoth, For surgical terrors I e'trh not iv vain; Yet dully my torrora nobody atlYltflitotb, And still How on, I'm the Hospital Drain. My greatest doliahtU to stifle wayfarer., Wo en peacefully wending tlie'.r way about town; No merov I show to all petticoat wearer a, I send out my fumes, and they must inucklo BTon hoi'-'ea I startle, whone'er thoy come near And iusaeuTors choke ia the Kaipara train ; Ere long I will teach " OHy Father-' to fear And lot thorn all know I'm the Hospital Drain.

My jubilee time the hot summer is coming, " Oh I I'll enjoy mytelf thoa every diy : When flow'i's aro blooming, and bcoa EO.tiy And nature's faco smiling, looks verdant and My steam will mile, and tho' n.nemay poreoive

Hell's poi:on I'll BOatter through alloy and I'll breed plague and fever, and tho' fow belieTo

There's doath for a host ia Iho Hospital Drain.

The gravo-dlggors will then have work. Oh ! Grlm'c Porm.- I'll nil and eend i. IT In a van; OMlvlng ones dully I'll kill ot least twoatyTbo throat is not Idlo. for do It I can. Your hearthß will bo vaoaut, your skroeta all Th-^mourner may weep for hor lost ono. in E»oh home to a chancel house will bo oonThremjli shameful ncglco: of the Hospital Dram.

Oh I You who havo wives, who havo sons and fair duugbtor., , ~ Bestir, ye good .itlzosß. o'on while ye may; Parity, if you, can, my p.stlfMOUß waters, Or bettor fur-rapidly swoop them away. A nuisance bo vtlo aboul_ be quickly abaie.. Who leaves It to triumph Is surely lot*no i Take warning, or Boon you'll be aaphyxlated. Till Dtith l'mlyour servant, the Hospital Drain. Jf 0 - u , Auckland, October 2nd, JBBO.