THE LOWER VIEW POINT.
I would not have trusted the bee with a sting, ",..-• Nor the gnat with a taste for meat ; I would not have 'hidden m brake anil ling ' ■ • The ackler that haunts 'my feet; I would, not- have '.bristled the hedge with thorns. • Nor poisoned the berries red ; I would 'not haye 5 fashioned the billlock's horns, ;,'.:.• . ■ j' ■ : -". i Nor riddled the' jiight? with dread.
I would not have burdened the sun with spots, : . Nor put oat thejnoon so quickl}'. ; I would! not set, snails m the •.garden' plots, , j • : Nor scatter the \yeeds so thickly ; But knowing the world is God's, not: mine, ' I fancy the gnat and the bee, The adder, the bush, and the horned kine ; Must wonder \ why God made me. —London Daily Chronicle.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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131THE LOWER VIEW POINT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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