SO WHAT'S THE ODDS?

NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 4

SO WHAT'S THE ODDS?

ii . ■ ■■ '« ii || T he Wise, they war; the Fools, they fool; || II The Stars corns out, are gone; _. || II And Man, he tries, and Man, he dies, || If And Time goes whistling on. .'.. '|| II — "B'Golly Bill's Almanac." \\

ll Why do we bother ll Like this, my friend? II The worst as well II As the best must end. H And what will there be, ii In a year or three, II A What will there be 1 1 Of you and. me? If What will it matter, fi '' -, Once we are dead, II v What they have done to us, if \what they have said? || Hardly or tenderly, 1| Vyhat shall we care, jf WeU)f the Dark Ami the Lord knows where? ii \ ' II v Which ibe the pleasure, || And w/hich the hurt, || To us dbwn there II In the\damp old dirt? |s \ • llSSrmllli'iiiiS

What will it matter, \\ Beginning or end? fl We shall sleep sound . 11 As the best, my friend. . . \\ Life is/ short, || And.' its moments flee, || Like a ,wave that breaks \\ On /a: sunlit sea; \\ But oh, it's> good, \\ If /your heart is free, If And/ very sweet, 11 „ If you'll let it be. If ' ■ 1 1 If you look on it || As a grand old game, \\ And laugh at laurels, || •And laugh at shame, if And laugh at Life, . m if , And to Life proclaim:* \\ Vln a hundred years ii ; 'Twill be all the same. . . ."H ■ = H — C.H.O. \\ iiiiuiiiniiiuiiiiiini:iiiuuiiim>uiiiniiiiu(iiiiiiiMiui>iiiini tiiimmmiiiiimiiimiiiHiiimmiiinir I iiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiNuliiiMiiimmii iiiii tMimimmiimmmiiimuiminnmiliiiiuiiummpmim?