MR WILLIS'S CHRISTMAS CARD.
• Speaker Willis ventured to send to the Sydney. "Sun" a Christmas card, hence the following, in the paper next day :— ; Mri Willis sends-the "Sun"'Christmas greetings. His gold-lettered card r has a •picture on the baclc of . the!'swearing-in of the first Governor-General at Centennial Park, eleven years'apfo. Inside'it contains a quotation from • "Hamlet"' , Fie on'trO.'fie!; 'lis an un.weeded> gar-' den That grows to seed;, things rank and \ gross in nature ■ Possess it merely. This is. evidently intended as one in the eyo for the Opposition. The: nobility of the, Speaker's thoughts is shown ; by another quotation, this one from Bailey:— Wo live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, ■ not breaths ; ~ In feeling,?,'not in fingers i( on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives : Who thinks most—feels the noblestacts the best. :
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 31 December 1912, Page 7
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138MR WILLIS'S CHRISTMAS CARD. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 31 December 1912, Page 7
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