" ELIXIR."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8143, 15 December 1904, Page 2

" ELIXIR."

(W.A.Q.)

His "shikar" mates were sobering fast, As from the Mountain House there passed A "joint," who staggered up the slope, And clasped to breast his favorite "dope," Elixir! "Look out! you coot! for falling branch, And mind the blanky avalanche!" A voice rang out from cliff on high, "He knows no fear who's full of rye, Elixir!" * "Oh, stay!" they called, "and pay your share Of drinks all round and hostel fare!" No word replied that mountaineer But waved ty flask,, % n.d glittered ckar Elixir,! At length 'he gained what climbers seek, , The rugged crown of Fantham's Peak, And here he rested on the ground, And swHed, with many a, gurgling sound, Elixir,! Next morn the searckera on their, way Discovered where the wanderer lay, if* n ii "f 1 " 6 ? h «n down o'er stone and sand Still clasping in his frozen hand Elixir!