"COLONIAL PIPERS, PLEASE COPY."
English yet! though strange your faces Browned with hard colonial toil, In our hearts ye keep your places, Brothers, born on foreign soil. Listen in each distant clime To our English Christmas chime. English yet I Should ever trouble Enter your dear Mother's door, Would ye not then love her double ? Shed your blood, expend your store ? Nor in ends o' the earth forget That ye all are English yet ? English yet! The world seems narrow To your hearts so warm and wide: And they fly straight as an arrow Home to us each Christmastide: And our eyes with tears are wet, Thinking ye are English yet. —The author of " John Halifax, Gentleman," In the " Gentleman's Magazine."
Memories. — "A. D." writes on the 7th:— The poem which heads your poetry column in the Witness September 5, " Memories," has the first six verses copied (with very little alteration) from one of Longfellow's, entitled " The Open Window"; and its last verse from hymn 405, " Church Praise," verse 1, latter half. The remaining two verses lam not certain about, but view one at least suspiciously. Many of your readers delight very much in original effusions from the pens of their fellow colonists, but plagiarism is despicable [We inserted the poem in good faith, the letter coming by post, and the signature being apparently genuine. — Ed.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 1973, 12 September 1889, Page 29
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