Useless Regrets

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1917, Page 4

Useless Regrets

(By Walt Mason).

"We all regret our past mistakes and view the same with wailing; but when we've made our dizzy bu-eaks, our tears are unavailing. You run your call* at crazy; speed l through city streets and alleys; for safety rules you have not lieed, on rural hills and valleys. Some day when you swing round a. curve tliero'll sweep into your vision another car—you'll lose your neirve, and there'll be a collision. When from the tangled .wreck jyou orawl with slate and wishbone broken, the warning words you will recall that .I've so often spoken. And wlien you lie upon a cot, -with plaster . casts around you, a string of dark remorseful thoughts will torture and confound you. You'll weep for former folly then, your soul will be disgusted, but tears won't make you sound again, or heal the leg that busted. And so with every foolish trick that you and 1 arc springing; the penalty will make us sick, remorse and sorrow bringing.