THE POET’S CORNER

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9089, 7 March 1908, Page 6

THE POET’S CORNER

TO A PARTING GUEST. Craze of Bedlam, ere we part, Let me open out my heart. Must you go, so lately come? Have you ceased indeed to hum.'’ Hear my prayer, if this be so; Don’t come back, Diabolo. By the bobbin-bump which now Decks my diabolic brow ; By my silver-mounted sticks (All for twenty-two and six) ; Do I care? Well, frankly-—no ! Not a toss, Diabolo. By the ode I wrote in praise Of your quaint, elusive ways; By the verb I used, alack ! When the postman brought it back; By the fashion’s ebb and flow, I’ll be brave, Diabolo. Go (don’t think I really mind), Go, nor leave a wrack behind. Take the bobbin, take the string, Take the whole confounded thing. Take my parting word, and go To the real Diabolo ! —Punch