Poetry.
A CYNIC. [By Andrew Kinross,] Sometimes by chance we find a man Who acts on the ill-natured plan Of always seeking to cause strife When passing through the vale of life ; In other’s business seeks to pry. And plays the aneaking part of spy ; Seeks to pick holes in others* clothes. And never feels for human woes ; A wounded spirit tries to hit, And brutal coarseness thinks is w.it; A nd never has a word of praise, For noblest works that others raise ; But is so puffed with self-conceit, Thinks all creation he can beat; Seeks to dictate what all must think, What all must spend and all must drink ; True love can never reach his heart, For self fills up its every part ; The tyrant’s role he seeks to fill, And bend all others to his will; When better men he tries to rule, Why, then he simply plays the fool; So let him clap and crow all round. And trail his coat upon the ground; Just treat his blaster as a joke, And let his blowing end in smekt.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 8, 26 May 1894, Page 11
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182Poetry. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 8, 26 May 1894, Page 11
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