ORIGIjNAL, . o --■ •v ■ .-WHAT iIS LOYE ? ■ .. • Oh ! what is Love, that it can wring, jFrpm lover's bosom, painful sighs, Yet make the trusting maiden sing Tier light and merry melodies ? Tis^said it is a pleasant dream, That fills the soul with ecstacies ; . A. sweet, a pure, and placid stream, Meandering through a paradise. But such it is not how to me-- • (The'tanraft in.my bosom's care , Is'rather;like an angry sea . .Breaking ona rugged shore, While starless night arid tempest reign, r And everything is drear and dark ; ■For- all I have of love is pain, Without of blissful hope a spark. .Dark,.dark the world, I ween, would be, ' rlf.ev'ry heart was dark as mine • No lasting pleasure dwells with me ; ol live not, now, in life's sunshine; j .N° r > reck. I, now, how soon the thread j , That links meto.this world of care, Should break, and lay me with the dead, Since happiness I may not share. H. -AN" ACROSTIC. 1» O! indeed, I feel Love's dart ; , ;o,, 'cruel 'girl, you'll break my heart. .V anquish'd at last, rhy death will be, ■E ven with L, and 0, and V, and E. •-;•■■■ '■-''./'• E. ADVERTISEMENTS. . INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITIONS COMMITTEE, NELSON. - : The Committee appointed to promote the co-opera-tion of the inhabitants of this Province in furtherance of the. EXHIBITIONS to be held at MELBOURNE, BOMBAY, and PARIS, request all intending EXHIBITORS to inform the Secretary, as soon as convenient, as to what ARTICLES they intend to contribute, and to which Exhibition they wish them to be sent. " The Melbourne Exhibition will be held iu the month of August. That at Bombay will be held in September. The Paris Exhibition will be held in the course of next year. '' Eor all other information intending Exhibitors may apply to the undersigned. ■ F. W. IRVINE, Hon. Sec. Nelson, January 20, J 866. S7 THE MITRE HOTEL, Bridge-street, Nelson. THE above Hotel is now undergoing extensive improvements, and the undersigned begs to assure the public that no expense will be spared in rendering it second to none in Nelson. S. OWENS, 33 Proprietor. LABOR MART, BRIDGE-STREET. LADIES and gentlemen residing in town will find • it" to their advantage to apply at the Labor Mart for servants. Persons in the country requiring labor will be immediately attended to on sending a communication to the Labor Mart, Bridge-street, Nelsbn. 29 WANTED, immediately, Female Servants. Apply to Mrs. FLOOD, Labor Mart, Bridgestreet. 28 WANTED, 'Situations, by steady Farm Laborers. Apply to Mrs. FLOOD, Bridge-st. 9 WANTED, an ' APPRENTICE. Apply at tlie Office of this Paper. WANTED, a Female Servant and a Nursemaid. Apply to Mrs. ARMSTRONG, Geelong and Ballarat Hotel, Bridge-street. 104 WANTED, a Female Servant; liberal salary given. Apply to Mrs. ASKEW, Bridgastreet.' ' 111 CHEAP CLOTHING ! Cheap Clothing I— The ■-. cheapest house in town, S. M. SOLOMON, Trafalgar-street. , 59 TTPHO.LSTERING. — Upholstering in all its '\J brandies at the Upholstering and Furnishing Rooms, opposite the Bank Hotel, Hardy-st. 55 GHEESE.— Finest Nelson and Canterbury Cheese '" on Sale. W5- • JOHN BROOK, Bridge-street. jj : ', :_ - - . . BATHS* -BATHS.— Warm Baths at WEST'S, To-day. l , ; 83
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 9, 14 March 1866, Page 4
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