OPPORTUNITY.
1 O POTENT ruler of our earthly fate, Anil tickle Fortune's vagrant minister! The things wo covet ami we hold most i! ear— Fame, Love, and Riches-dwell within toy | prate; | 1 ;on bait the making of the truly great And yet. O cold, impassive loiterer. Thou chilliest the hours of oar career, And wak'st to heart that bitter cry—" 100 late!" . Or, shouldn't thou haply hold thy music clue Toward us in our day of lusty youth And bid us ope the gate of Heart 8 desire We. in our baste tile trophy to acquire, Pturable: and when again we look, in truth, Where thou didst stand is set a, bed of rue. —8.M.R., in the St. .lames' Gazette.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11840, 18 December 1901, Page 3
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120OPPORTUNITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11840, 18 December 1901, Page 3
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