"ROMANCE!"
They say that all Romance has fled— The stir of golden days is dead ! They tell how knights m armor bright Kiased warm red lips, then went ,to fight. They see these scenes m Shakespeare's plays, And cry : "By Gad ! those were the days !" Forsooth, but this all seems' to me • A maudlin sort oi fallacy ! Our skies are blue— our trirls are fair, As m those boosted times— l'll swear! Our men as brave as men Icnp; dead— The wine is just as rich and led: They 'knew no nights m gilded bars— Tho wilrl free flichts i:i motor-cars. A thousand other joys pi now They never knew or sipped— l trow ! Ah ! leu us sing, flirt, ■drink, ' and dance— The world is still filled with RoI maiice I
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NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 8
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131"ROMANCE!" NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 8
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