PENRITH HERALD and EAST CUMBERLAND and WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 438-Sixth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission Abroad. THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE. Oh! give me the life of a farmer's wife, In the fields and woods so bright, 'Mong the singing birds and the lowing herds, And the clover blossoms white; The note of the morning's heavenward lark Is the music sweet for me, And the dewy flowers in the early hours The gems I love to see. Oh! give me the breeze from the waving trees. The murmur of summer leaves, And the swallow's song as she skips along, Or twitters beneath the eaves; The ploughman's shout, as he's turning out His team at set of sun, Or his merry good-night by the firefly's light, When his daily work is done. And give me the root and the luscious fruit, My own hands rear for food, And the bread so light and honey white, And the milk so pure and good; For sweet the bread of labour is, When the heart is strong and true, And a blessing will come to the hearth and home, If our best we bravely do. **********************************************************************************************