Selected Poetry.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1519, 12 February 1886, Page 4

Selected Poetry.

THE DESPOTISM OF DEMOCRACY.

The tyranny of multitude* If natehed in no one tyrant*! lift, In that their many-neat preclude* The dread of bomb or knife.

The million beaded tyrant stalk* Unchallenged on hie evil path. So long as in hie bounds he walks, And shuns all Europe's wrath.

The si»gle tyrant, scorning law— Howe'er the trampled myriads cower Beneath bu lash—must s»and in awe: Their patience in his power.

Freedom needs safety. Livinf free like the much hunted mountain deer la a poor farce of liberty, Hall-drowned with din of fear.

Ho whom democracy denies The use of conscience, is a slave, Though- fifty thousand deputies InHalli of freedom rare.

Freedom hates pillage; he whose hand To seiie hia neighbour's hoard will stretch, Is called, in every Christ i in land, Not free, but thief and wretch.

Freedom must guard the golden rule, " Give what Ton would receive yourself; " She must not stoop to be the tool Of those whose creed is pelf.

CALF-LOVE. I wonld not say a word to sadden Love, Poor Lore, who hath so rery much to bear; Let him enjoy his spring-tide, when the dove Fills with soft cooings all t»<e fragrant air. Let him enjoy his summer, undisturbed By doubts, and fears, and hints of coming frost; Nor take his cold-bath at lore ■ end. unnerved By previous shivering* on its brink. Will lost Most love goes to it* death; but, here and there, Love's worth the loring. flourish green and fair!

But oh! how sweet the Terr lightest lore The while it huts, tho ur'er such little while And ne'er so light, ill other joys shove, LoTe shines supreme, our senses to beguile With dreams of joy ineffable, to last For ever and for ever, tho* the years That come may find those dreams behind as cast, Aad, if recalled, recalled with idle jeers As calf-tare, for the ye*r» will cool youth's bead, And jet, ah, me! how that calf-lore wa» sweet!