SELECT POETRY.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 2, Issue 74, 14 May 1873, Page 2

SELECT POETRY.

the song cp the printed. Pick and click Goes the type in the stick, As the printer stands at the case ; His eyes glance quick, and his- lingers pick 'J he 1 ype at a rapid pace ; And one by one as the Jotters go, Wards are piled up steady and slow— Steady and slow. But still they grow, And words of tire tiiey soon will glow j Wonderful words wituout a sound Traverse the earth to its utmost bound Words that shall make The tyrant quake And the fetters of tlie oppress’d shall break } Words that can crumble an army’s might, Ur treble its strength in a righteous figiit. Yet the type they lo >k but. luadcu ami dumb. As he puts them in place with finger ami thumb; But the printer smiles And Ins work beguiles By chanting a song as the letters he jnles With tick and click Like the world’s chronometer, lick, tick, lick, 0, where is the man with suen simple tools(Jan govern the world as 1 ? 'With a printing press, an iron slick, And a little leaden die. With paper of white, and ink of black, I support the Right, ami the Wrong attack. Say, w.n-rc is he, or wiio he may be, Tint can rival tho primer's power > To no monarch that lives the wall doth ho give, Theit sway looks only an hour ; While the printer still grows, and God only knows When his might shall cease to tower 1