IN THE SWIM
It’s fine to go in for a swim When the tide fills the ocean to the brim. The water in Neptune’s swimming pool Is always bracing, fresh and cool. The waves are ever in attendance And demonstrate their independence By behaving the same to everyone Rich and poor man’s daughter and son. ' i The combers come rolling to the shore Splashing and dashing for evermore All are involved in the spray and foam Who into the world of waters roam. Folks who are said to be in the swim Are sometimes those with a purpose grim; Who intend to climb to a social place And look the whole world in the face With a cultivated complacent grin That plainly says you see “I’m in.” With the folks who are really in the swim For Buckingham Palace from whence may be I shall return with an important docket— A knighthood in my right hip pocket. So perhaps it pays to be in the swim; To entertain a far fetched whim That may or may not eventuate. Everything comes to those who wait Even the tiresome accounts marked ‘rendered’ For which no hard cash has been tendered! But there still remains the logical view You cannot owe bills and pay them " too. H. SERGANT.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 3
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215IN THE SWIM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 3
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