Horace Up-to-Date.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 June 1917, Page 3

Horace Up-to-Date.

Ais DXFO*t(D STREET VERSION ''Integer Vitae"'; or - "The Central Part of Light." Being a (very free translation of the Roman Poet's Twenty-second ode.) Here in Levin while central our lampposts, , Arc crowned and gleaming all over the roadway, No fear of thugs need the traveller harry Diariding in tree shade. ■Right from the doc's to the pub liehouse corner— Past Kenneth Aitkeu's and Parker and l Vincent's— (Light for good leading still central awaits you W altar, my bouchail, Centrally lit by white lamps sitting . lofty, Poised oil their pillars with concrete foundation, Tiruly venustus, the charm all and sundry— •Barring our Tonalt. Late from the council last niglit I was speeding (Seeking my farm in the Sabine Zaroa) iCertes 1 cared not; the lamps still shone brightly Though 'twas '10.50 Northward from dwelling® of Ernest and Stuart, On past the homes of our R»b and 1 our Thomas, - Even reflecting o'er gravel-pit tutu On the gasom'ter! What though ia baker immersed m his pence-book Biffed' one and suffered? And what' though two Alfreds Wish to save money for me and for others? each yearly I) Side lamps may suit folk in far away Ohau; » VVe, though, have dwelt in the light of things 'better: .. Sh'all we be forced to seek light in the glitters All to save ninepence! Even if experts have erred who advised us During past years; let me ask ilbr the surety Councillors hold that our present adviser Treads not behind them. FUSOUS. Weraroa-road, June o, 1917.