Poetry. A Pretty Sight to See.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1961, 31 January 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

Poetry. A Pretty Sight to See.

It ib a pretty sight to nee That happy, loring band, The father with his manly form And firm yet gentle hand The mother with the brooding care That bo becomes her face, And all her ways, reproof and praise, And seems a tender graoe. And then the children, ono by one, As they po dancing by, Brown haired, or with light tresses like The tasßled corn or rye ; Health's roses on their rounded cheeks So beautiful and rare, With lips rose-sweet, theso quito complete •" - Oar piotare bright and fair. Or would yon see another phase Of this true work of art, For like the players each may take A very different part ; Imagine that some years have passed, The parents growing gray, While many ills there home-oup Oils, As wanes life's fading day. * Ah, here's a picture— stop and 100k — That h surpassing fair, Of grateful children paying baok In part, for loving care. The babes the youthful mother bore Upon her faithful breast Now tike the lead, in thought and deed, That the may sweetly rest. And he, the aged father, leant, In confidence and joy, Upon the stalwart arm of him Who was the frailest boy ; These pictures seem so great and grand, When on life's great highway We stop to rest, that which is bent • Ii very hard to say.