Selected Poetry.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1522, 12 March 1886, Page 4

Selected Poetry.

NEMESIS.

When he and she were ten and eigl t Hit little wife was she; And both were quite content to wait Till be a man should he. Tbey played together as they grew ; A tyrant lord was b-* They'd quarrel when the clock was two Ard make it up at three!

At fifteen he on girlish toys Looks down with »cornful mien; And she disdains to play with boys At feminine thirteen. Bis matrimonial views arc cool, At lore be gayly mocks; She boasts a dearest friend at school, And daily lengthening frocks!

When twenty sees him quite a man, Its bliss has one alloy : She langbe at him behind her fan And calls him such a boy; For she has lovers now galore, Who smiles and favour crave, And he who tyrannized of yore It now her humblest slate!

They now are middle-aged; 'tis siid His chin a beard now covers; And strange to say, she's not yet wed, In spite of all her lovers ! But vain for her to sigh for him, For so the story tells— Grown weary of capric* and whim He's married some one else! Chambers'* Journal.

M i*| HELEN.

My Helen, dai»ie« o'er thi'e crowd, And mjriarf birds arc ringing loud ; Bat wlut are flowers ar.d :ong# to me, Appalled by Death's dark mystery— For thou art sleeping in thy shroud!

With youth and beaaty graced, endowed With all the lore my heart was pruod To lavish richly uj.on the*— My Helen!

My Helen! saj Death, heary browed Aid fierce and strong, hath disal'owed My ownership, aid nattily llath cut thee down. Ne'er cai.'st thou be In spite of ail the tows we rowed— My Helen !