Verse-Old & New

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 9

Verse-Old & New

The Wheel of Life Xow have voti ever looked around. And counted one I>y one The things of life that ever change, The hills, the clouds, the sun. 1 There's no't :t thing that does remain As in the- first 'twns found, Bor everything on earth does change; The seas, the winds, the ground. Man ’s life is ever changing, too, Me lots hi> joy and sorrow. And'what a strange world it would be, If there was not to-morrow. Oh! think if wo no moon did see, Because there was no night, And nil the seasons were just one, It wouldn’t seem quite right. We’d miss t.ho lovely autumn tints, The sunsets and the snow. In fact our thoughts would be the same As centuries, ago. Therefore, we ought not grumble when Our youth goes creeping by, For everything on earth does change, We live, and then we die. . - —-Miss F. McK. Smart, 100:RutOne road, Gisborne. Wife (i-eadiug) —It says here that they have found a sheep in the Himalaya Mountains that can run -111 miles an hour. Her Hubby—Well, it would take a lamb like that to follow Mary nowadays. ... Did. His Share Tire foreman was going from one man to another with a sheet ■ of paper.' ■ - • • When he canto to Sandy AleKie lie said, '‘Sandy, this is a subscription to gotHt wreath for dock Btuart, -tvlib diet!* last week. All your - mates have given a dollar toward it.” “Ooii, man,” replied Sandy. “That’ll make me an’ .lack square. He owed me a buck.”