THE BEST OF ALL.
BY EDWIN L. SABIX. Be it ours to gain with the hand and brain And wealth like the sands create. Or steer o'er the perilous darksome main The staggering ship of state; If the truth be told neither rank nor gold Bnys haven on Fnrtnne's man. Like that spot of old, which two arms foldThe bourne of a mother's lap, Gold will do while the world is new And the sun-Is o'erhead: But there comes a time when the p[ a y through And the zest nf spending sped. And rank is brave; hut there's matty 2 * tuave Poses in jewelled cap. While princes by right nr» czar and *dave When throned in their mother's kp. When low the sun, and the east tows dan. What wouldn't you give, friend* a \< To steal, each one. from his work and fun. Through forest and field and halt And safe midst the grey let hapten wrnr may. And be but a little chap. Tired with the play and the stress of tad day, "* L Htisgsd close in bis mother's i*«~ -
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1905, Page 9
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182THE BEST OF ALL. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1905, Page 9
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