A SUBMARINE'S TORPEDO
! lam tho sea devil's daughter, ' Spanned whero tho dead men dwell. Tsnoot through the hissing water ' . A lance- from the prinoe of aelu And ever I come to slaughter ' ; As mermaids ring a knell! ; • The pride of the seas of Britain ; • [ Is .the -wreck of a huckster's cart— Smitten as whales are smitten When the swordfish dares to dart! The little gray shark has bitten \ A hole, in tie kraken's heart! . 'I am the.eel of lightning: I blast whatever I strike, i The sea top fishes frightening I As the shark affrights the pike! Oh, but tho bones are whitening . . Of things I "do not like I I am the baba of, the devil! i Deep "hidden I skulk and'lie. 1 Till a liner laughs in revel r. ! And then . I dart on high And kiss with. kiss of evil, And what I' kiss muot die! . : John O'Keofe, in "Onconta Star." ; Miss Ella Caspers, the talented Auss tralian contralto, and Mr. Goldspiiik, i the tenor, who has been, singing with tho Amy Castle's Concert Company, are both at present under engagement _to ' Mr. Hugh D. M'lntosli in Australia, i Tho Court Cards (recently in Nowjleai land) are appearing in tho J. lyoh i. Theatre, under the title of. Edgar Warl wick's Burlesquers.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 9
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215A SUBMARINE'S TORPEDO Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 9
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