DETRACTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 75, 28 July 1950, Page 3

DETRACTION

What’s the matter with Walter? what has the lad done Committed all the crimes, ’neath the financial sun? Such is the gist of political views By word of mouth, headline in news And a cartoon depicting Walter stone dead With Peter his cobber, with wide open head Offering an eloquent verbal oblation Identical with Antony’s oration Sid and his colleagues are eloquent too « With forcible language certainly not new A brigand, a pirate, Barnabas in fact, Could not have been guilty of such a vile act Perpetrated by Walter, the financial wizard Who must have exchanged his heart for a gizzard So say his detractors, who imagine they’re right With rabid intolerance obscuring their sight But Walter resembles brave Robin Hood Who relieved have, alls, for have nots good To give everybody a fair living chance His reward for the moment is a broken lance But Walter will learn in adversity’s school He is not down and out, and far from a fool Intolerance always is the offspring of pride Which preceeds a fall for swelled heads who ride Rough shod over all, they imagine are down There’s many a man considered a clown Who eventually climbs to the summit of fame To put all his erstwhile detractors to shame. HARRY SERGANT.