CHARITY'S SONG.
If we were wise, what pence we'd hoard, Spurning the cripples and beggar sort ! Yet ghosts, I think would haunt our board Ghosts of the shipwrecked, seeking port. If we were wise, Dame Life and I, Would. God look gently from the sky?
If we had thrift, what pounds we'd save, Thrusting the beggar-mari out o' door! Would bracken o'. Jiih'e as softly wave On the next year's! heath when *l_e swept the flood? ' ' If we had thrift,/Dame!Life and I, Corild we dare watch the star-cramm-ed sky? /.. If: we were wise, what pence we'd hoard, Counting them niggardly one by one! Yet dusk, would it fall' with the sweet accord Of a night at peace with the dying sun? If we were wise, Dame Life and I, Would love hang lamps about the sky.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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136CHARITY'S SONG. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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