CONTRASTS.
" They look up with their pale and sunken faces, ami their look is dread to see." There' 8 a poor girl down on the strict— I passed hor when coming along — She has cold, bare, stockingless foefc, And she creeps through fche hurrying throng In the chilly December sleet, With my eyes half-closed in the storm, I was singing as I came near, For I knew all was tidy and warm, And you waited to welcome me hero. And already I saw your sweet form. The wind and the rain bitter cold Were fanning the glow within, When my eye caught the miserly, old Worn rags on the figure so thin— So clingingly wet every fold. The wench might bo ten or eleven, _S But Bunken and small of her yeara; What aid are a few coppers given In a caße such as hers ?—it appears That you and I, wife, are in heaven. But it isn't just quite the same place That it might be this wintry night If there were no such hunger-pinched face, Or a*;child in such sorrowful plight. In the midst of this civilized race. A.B.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1753, 28 May 1886, Page 5
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191CONTRASTS. Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1753, 28 May 1886, Page 5
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