THE WELLINGTON EXHIBITION.

Waipawa Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 781, 26 May 1885, Page 3

THE WELLINGTON EXHIBITION.

The Wellington Industrial Exhibition will have its formal opening on Saturday, Bth August. The following is the opening cantata proposed to be sung on the occasion : Ye men of every land and tongue ! unite with joy to-day, In emulative zeal and hope, to freely tribute P*J To Industry’s ennobling shrine inaugurated here, In fair New Zealand’s Colony, where glorious appear Rich slores of arts industrial, of mankind’s rarest choice, That tell of Labor’s lofty aims with deep and mighty voice. How swiftly rnay the head conceive—conceive in vain a plan, If many willing, cunning hands, uniting to a man— Refuse from lack of labor’s love to work, but idly find In some ignoble pastime, sport for body and for mind ; To labor is the lot of man : his works his lasting fame : Ten thousand varied monuments perpetuate his name. From Time’s remotest era Man, by dint of earnest toil, Hath wrought his stedfast upward way with sweat and weary moil ; And earth, kind mother earth, ne’er fails to well perform her part, Where Men with dauntless will e’er strive with brain and gallant licjirt To make the arid desert bloom and blossom as the rose, While swift-directing mind and hand their mighty tasks dispose; Promoting beatific peace and plenty through the world, Where’er our glorious Standard waves, triumphantly unfurled I ( Orchestral Inter lnd-io.) Arise 1 New Zealand, take thy course through ages on to fame ; Attaining ’mongst earth’s greater Powers a bright illustrious name. Scion of a mighty Empire 1 while by noble deeds ye rise, The emblems of all virtues rare, ’neatb earth’s cerulean skies, The sweet, the manly of our race shall surely yet be found, Shedding for aye Light, Truth, and Love ’midst hallowed peace profound, Reflecting those attributes shining with lustre bright around.