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.