ONE FOR “T. D.,” OF SPRING CREEK.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 137, 26 September 1868, Page 4

ONE FOR “T. D.,” OF SPRING CREEK.

To the Editor of the - Marlborough Express. Sir,—You will me by inserting these few lines, as 1 am only a-new-comer in a poetical community. I cannot rest until 1 have bad a trial; and if this don’t suit you, I hope you will not judge me harshly, as Burns was only a ploughboy like myself.—Yours, &c., B. G.

From the Breach, from the weir, they’ve not toiled in vain, To stop the fierce water from sweeping the plain; They’ve done this good work by digging a drain, To turn all the water into the Wairau again. Now the work it is done, they’ll come for the

dust, And those that don’t give, I hope they’ll all bust; But I am a poor man, and its known all around, Yet if they run short I’ll give them ten pounds For the Opawa farmers, they’ve done a fine thing, They nil will begin to laugh and to sing ; And the Blenheimites say they never will weep, Unless they have their houses to sweep.

The Spring Creek farmers, they’ve had a fine run Wbilecrossing the field with the dog and the gun; But Mr. T.D. thought himself very smart, The flood it will come his crops for to cart. Many meetings were called, as all of you know— A committee was formed to the Breach for to go ; But Mr. T. D., he got a good spat, Which made every one laugh and call him a flat. Now the meeting commenced with laughing and

fun, — With talking and jesting the day out they run, Excepting T.D., who looked very black, 1 thought to myself he deserved a good crack.

The meeting was ended, and all went home well, Their friends and relations the story to tell;

That Mr. H. D. was rather too much, So they popp’d on their hats and left it as such. [We have inserted the above at the earnest request of the writer, and with the exception of a few errors in the spelling, exactly as given to us. The verses are quite beyond our powers to improve them. —Ed. M.E.]