Discontent.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2050, 1 April 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Discontent.

What i« my lit* 7 'Tis just * narrow space Hedged in on either eide by datiee' wall* I eenoot get beyoad. With smiling (ao* Tj me in rain iweet Nature laadly calls. Each dancing wilful leal the eon beam* gild ■ The bird* (lit twittering aeroee my way, Vor they are free —but I—l moat not stay To let their joyou life inspire. Heartchilled. To my doll taakt I tun —for what 7 For bread For life that is not moat. My famished sonl is led Oa boats -and you—yon think I should be Wight, Gratefnl for what 1 hare ; well, let that pass. Ton’d prison a poor tire-fly in a glass, Aid wonder that he gave no larger light.

Tb* ns paiata the heart of the rainbow W,t!) wonderful luminous tints, Aad give* Us* roots cf the plant let A thousand helpful bints. There are Mona in the path of tbs brooklas, Tel it laugh* in spite of all; 0) the mote* in tb*'sunbeam hinder lie bfawwg the vine-clad wall ? Eteh light has its varying shadow, B ieh life its meed of toil: Uev* ytm thoaght how the vine gain* beauty, Oat of the common soil 7 I know that year lot is irksome, A weary etrogd* for bread; And eft when you'd climb the mountain Vow foot thro’ the valley are lad. Bat, darling, the vale is gladdened By many a flower's fair boa; And Heaven I think will be brighter Fes the small plain datiea we do. Auca Dkkibon.