WHY SHOULD I SING?
Why should I sing if but a few may hear 1 Ah! why? when winter's storms are round my heart, Or when I sigh for joys the wide seas part— Song only knows to banish grief and fear. When days are dark and void of sympathy, The thoughtful measure is my only friend : What should I care if all things here had end If still my spirit lived in melody ? Yet now the skies are bright why should / 1 wreathe The garlands other hands may better twine ? Where kings of song are crowned why should I breathe My own poor tribute to the art divine 1 For joy the larks are singing in the sky, And I on earth must join their choir or die. Puketoi, June 11. — D. M. Wright.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2055, 13 July 1893, Page 39
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135WHY SHOULD I SING? Otago Witness, Issue 2055, 13 July 1893, Page 39
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