PERCY FRENCH

Evening Star, Issue 20138, 1 April 1929, Page 8

PERCY FRENCH

A VERSATILE GEHWS The recent death of Percy French, painter, poet, and society oiilmamci, has drawn from Mr Couh.m Kcrnaham a vow moving tribute G> his friends irifts, both of mind and heart. I iem.li had no head for business am no sense of monev values, and to aiccnt . for entertaining was a less bothersome wnv of earning a livelihood than fryimt to "sell bis pictures or bis poems IMi Kcrnaham quotes from Ercncn s famous recitation, ‘ Later On.’

When we’re children at our lessons it is bcantiliil to think of the good time coming., later on. When we’ve done with silly .copybooks mid horrid pons and ink What a lovely time is coining, later on! , , ~ The rivers oi New Zealand, the mountains of Pern. Tho watersheds of Europe, and the tribes of Timbucloo ; . All tho fads without the fancies, nil the tiresome and the true*. Will ho nowhere in that lovely later on.

Later on, later mi, Wlmu thorn “ G’ograpines have.

gone. , t , i We’ll forget about the Volga and

and the Don, The Dnieper and Hie Dniester Will have a long siesta la the lovely time that's coming later on.

The refrain of the Inst verse introduces a deeper note : Later on. later on, Oil, so maitv friends have gone,. Sweet lips that smiled and loving eyes that shone. Through the darkness into light . Guo by one tliey’vc winged their flight, And perhaps we’ll play togetherlater on