FAMILY FUN.
The sport of fortune, ever nip and down ; \ And, as in real life, when shades approach, I'm humbled to tifoe ground. ,But when- the sun with vivifying power, c Chases away each dark impending cloud. I'm elevated to my former srhere, And rest triumphant in my high abode, Deck'd, lilre a fop, with many a golden ring. To please each fancy I can rise or fall, Cringe or contract myself in such a sort As to appear reverse of what ,1 am ; But then ' alas ! on what a slender cord Hangs my existence, which incautious hands' v May suddenly destroy ! Sometimes I'm seen to smoothly run along, And many a -sharp reproving lecture hear From the glib .tongue .of/ an incensed wife. Answer. — Curtain.: ','*'*" - 1
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 20 February 1908, Page 38
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127FAMILY FUN. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 20 February 1908, Page 38
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