Correspondence

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1362, 26 June 1905, Page 3

Correspondence

\f WET SUNDAYS ' 10 THE BOITOB DbarSir, yyheu it's wet in Vfaihi on a Sunday, It's a worry to know what to do; Of course, there's the Church and the Aimy, ' And places of worship, it's true; But I speak for the tired, and un°o.lly, "tyho ha\o toiled and sweated all through 'The night shift of six weary mornings , And gone home to bed with the dew, 'Perhaps he is 6ingle and batching, Has garments, so holey, to mend; goes to cooking his' wee bit o' sirloin; A two up school p'raps to attend, A stroll with bis sweetheart at even, A yarn witb,a comrade or friend, > Prepares for his next week of working * Looks longingly on for the end, Perhaps he is mimed and happy, ,Cares nought for the heaviest shower, Bat nM by the fin with his children, I . Telling tales of love by the hour; [i* Till be nods into wonderful dreamland, ;' That vision of beautiful calm, ' But he wake* with«a cry. " Lor, Maria, ,„ I thought that Iheard tho alarm." \ There are some who have regular I moetings I, In some sheltered part of the street, ft And who talk of their lgotball and racing f To everyone else that they meet, i While, for me, I'm a hardeuod old sinner, "' l * I'm. afraid no example I've set—1' I simply sit down and write poetry, When Waihi on a Sunday is wet. Bob, Waihi June 2otb 1905.