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RUMOUR AND THE TRUTH.
(After Longfellow.) I breathed a rumour into the air, It was accepted everywhere, For so swiftly it spread that I Could not explain it was a lie. I breathed the truth into the air, It fell quite flat nearly everywhere, For who in these days cares forsooth For a thing so stale as the simple truth ? For long months afterward—oh, how long I found the rumour going strong, But the truth, from beginning to end, Was hotly denied by my dearest friend.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 October 1920, Page 2
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86RUMOUR AND THE TRUTH. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 October 1920, Page 2
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