FROM A DIFFERENT STANDPOINT.
Ships that pass in the night, Commune with the sailor's cry, And they learn of each other name and freight, And whither bound, maybe, "With folk, for all we reck, their plight
Concerns us not — tiny die Or live, and love each their mate
Happy or miserably.
Our own misfortunes shtnild suffice
"Without the making of more, For. oh! fools be they wko pipe their eyes
At p corpse oi. a storm-swept shore, For our iv i<_'hbmir'.s eiy there's not the time,
Or the tide it .coivo->. c oivo-> but ill, And the <ry'b <-oon lo,t ; in the swish of tho wiiid, As it makes oi'i sails to fill. - — CYNICUS.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 53
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114FROM A DIFFERENT STANDPOINT. Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 53
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