EPITAPHS ON EMINENT STATESMEN
We cannot hope to have our eminent statesmen always with us. In anticipation of the sad time when a grateful public .will demand some feeling tribute to past worth, we hold in our pigeon-holes some ready-made epitaphs on our most eminent and best-beloved, which we publish in order that the subjects of them may have the preposthumous relish of reading them.
11. THE HON. JOHN BALLANOE. Here the just Ballance lies', Released I'rom cares of State ; Dead, it would seem,* Dead as a nail 1 Dead for a ducat ! The empty scale, Freed from the heavy weight, Has kicked the beam, A.nd he has kicked the bucket. No linger patient taxpayers ho pillages To found arcadian settlements and villages ; The gods from further hurt to save the nation Have changed said Ballance to a constellation Look up I He lights the skies. — R.I.P. No. 111. SIR GEORGE GREY. Under this swelling knoll the Gbbat Phoconsul lies : A knight sans peur, unrivall'd on the stump. When the great Doomsday 'angel calls him to the skies, In eloquent Sir George he'll flnd a trump.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1861, 22 July 1887, Page 14
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186EPITAPHS ON EMINENT STATESMEN Otago Witness, Issue 1861, 22 July 1887, Page 14
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