Poems (Curwen)/The "North-Western Daily Mail"

by Annie Isabel Curwen

"The North-Western Daily Mail."

Here's luck to the "North-Western Mail,"
 Which, with mingled hope and fear,
 We launch with the new-born year.
May it weather every gale,
And with flying colours sail
 On its prosperous career.

May it prove a great success,
 Like a golden Argosy
 On the journalistic sea,
And bring honour to the Press;
Free from all scurrilousness
 May its pages ever be.

But quick to denounce all wrong,
 And ever ready to fight
 On the side of truth and right—
Thus may it sail along
'Mid the journalistic throng.