TICK-TOCK.
"Tick-toek ! -tick-fcock ! O you stupid old clock ! 'There are butterflies to catch •Jiiat beyond the garden latch ; I could suck tbe honeyed wino From the horned columbine; In ft clump of lady-birch I could play to go to church, Mossy cushions to confess on, Pulpit-J.ick there with his lesson j If you did not, half asleep, Let the lazy minutes creep As if naught could hurry you, Though 1 have so much to do. O you troublesome old clock With your envious tick-tock ! You can hurry! Oh, I've seen (When I'm playing on the green) How you tick the hours away, Till you bring the evening grey, Tick-a-tqck and tock-a-tick ! Little minutes, hurry quick ? Somebody, I hear you say, Has too many hours to play ! So you, keep a jealous eye On the hours as trey flit by, Locking them away from mo With the twilights rusty key. [— AxyA F. Bvhnham.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1893, 2 March 1888, Page 35
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152TICK-TOCK. Otago Witness, Issue 1893, 2 March 1888, Page 35
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