Linger and Lapse.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 71, 22 August 1885, Page 3

Linger and Lapse.

A Patriotic Song • AiJAPTED^To Present . Requirements, . (from the St James' Budget.) ,/...,. T When a frantic Jingo journal, ! .with ita: parrot -ory eternal j ' ■ ..'•,'•'■■. Shrieked of . Muscovite enroaelring, and approacliing very nigh, .' We received' the n6te of yrarning with supreme contempt and scorning! ' For Russia vowed ,'twaß otherwise, and when did Russia lie ?• : . And the troublesome Akrarists . . .were referred to ! " bigger ■, ■:■••■■■> 'map's,' 1 "' ■• ''''"'■,. *■'• • •■"■ -■■ Till by-arid-by the panic cry was ■•.-■ understood to lapse*. : ••• /^■■-■'•'■''■"■hU'; ■,•"■• •■'■ ':.;: . '' When bur agent long had waited on the borderland debated, Their commissioner still, stay ing and delaying far away, . ; ■< ; ; . We presented protestations, but abstained roiiaf demonstrations Of annoyance-^feeling bound to hear What^Ruwia 6ad to say.v . i And. hearing the delay was due to \ mishaps," - '-\ On such a plea that boundary must T be allowed to lapse. ii. Then the cpssacks crossed the water, routing our alKes with slaughter, Because they looked »• provoking "-r-'tis the joking terai they used. . ; ! Arid they seem to have surprised them ; . so they went and catechized them, But as for. >atisf action, why, we know. t'wiU be refused. '> , ; Aiid when bur cheeks are tingling , ■ . ' red with diplomatic slaps, We rub the place, compose our face, and let the matter ..'.. '"■' lapse. ;; - .-.-.. '_ ! _ ./ ■ -. ■ ;■■'.■ : " "■ ■;■■'***<■■' . : : - ; v .■■■■ Still the evidence we're sifting, while to war .we're ilowly. drifting, To a conflict vast, terrific ; but pacific is . our chief; ■ And a chance however Blender, of escaping by surrender ' Of anything, at any price, we'll welcome with relief, - For after all it can't be helped, ■•■■ some fate our vigour saps— So from retreats m snug backaeats we'll watch the empire lapse. • v F.A.