A FARMER'S SOLILOQUY.
I shall not make a heap of pound on pound In piling up an incubus of laws l'hat vex the country much, midst great applause. Enough, if left alone, life's frugal round, The .while I. tend the stock, and till the ground. But tlioso inspectors, strange! I pay for, too; They come about une like a swarm of flies, , And do their best as far as in them lies To make some useless work to earn their screw; Enough, if left alone, life's frugal round, Tho while I tend the stock, and till the ground. Elsewhere, a Briton's boast, that he is froo; But here, a tenant fanner at this hour, All in tho strange namo of democracy, An Asiatic slave doth seem to be Unto the Government for the time in power., A.Y.T.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 5
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137A FARMER'S SOLILOQUY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 5
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