It's Time To Swim Out.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1428, 11 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

It's Time To Swim Out.

Dear friends, as you wander through life you

wilt see A great many persons who are very " squce

gee ;" Who think that the earth, the air, and the

sky Are ready for them when they arc ready to

buy; That man and that woman must bow in tho

dust When they come in tbe way of the great

" upper crust ;" That heaven is scarcely as good as tbey

wish, Considering their previous social " posi?h ;" But time ever changes, 'tis thus we have

read — They had better swim out, for they are over

their -head. There's a youth over there with a girl by his

side, He's bound to get married with her for his

bride ; And they haven't a cent, rest assured, hid

away To kep)) them from want if there comes a

"cold day." There's a clerk in a bank with a salary

small Who wears the best clothes, is the swell of

the ball ; He has to have money, that we all will

allow, And he gets what he wishes, no matter how. There's a statesman, a patriot, deep in whese

soul Is the purpose of writin' his name on the

roll Of the great and the wiso who have done what is best, But just at the present he's feathering his nest. There are women and men whom we meet every day. Tho bright aud the youthful, the grim and the gray, In business and politics, religion and art, In all times and places they're playing a part, And the world knows it, too ; it's painted in

• red — They'd better swim out, for they're over their head.