VAGRANT VERSE

Southland Times, Issue 18829, 24 May 1920, Page 4

VAGRANT VERSE

BALLADES OF THE BOARDS I.—LIZETTE PARKES. Australian sunshine wide of flow Is in her cye.s of sweet appeal, Tall gum trees swaying, row on row. Have proved her art, exotic, real; And great white beaches set their sell Upon their own devoted pet Where stalls and gallery must kneel— You are the Queen of Hearts, Lizettel No one with such a lofty show Of truth, has watched the villain steal Her love, ami simply let it go, Then took it back with tearful zeal. And with a passion clean to heal. And lips in anxious fervour set Heard circle clap and loud “godaf* squeal— You arc the Queen of Hearts, Lizettel And no one whom we knew or know With “business” hard to so reveal Would better treat her chosen beau And lead him on to future weal. To get the best of every deal, And most surely trick and bet, And hold the “house” and make it feel — You arc me Queen of Hearts, Lizettel L’Envoi; Girl, heroines pass, fast and slow, They catch the world as in a net, Now you have shown it- such, and so You are ‘he Queen of Hearts, Lizettel 2.—O’HARA LIGHTNIN’ JQ§ES. The Jones that strange things happened to While all the world laughed merrily, The Henry Arthur Jones whose coo Is heard in charming comedy, Tom Jones’s immortality, The Jones’s all of right good-will From two years old to eighty-three— Never a Jones like Lightnin’ Bill! Sail of the earth without to-do The Jones’s boast a pedigree, They fill up pages in Who’s Who, Toil on the land or take a fee, There’s Paul Jones great in history And Colonel Jones who held some hill And carried off the great V.C. — Never a Jones like Lightnin’ Bill!

The Jones’s have no ill to rue, They simply drive the stingful bee Across the snow (with pleasant shoo) Of many miles of wild prairie. They tell their stories with such glee Suggesting work in many a mill, The Jones’s merry, Jones’s dree— Never a Jones like Lightnin’ Bill! L’Envoi: Shaun, Jones’s richer than a Jew, Girl Jones’s with all fashion’s frill, Jones's who drink and swear and chew— Never a Jones like Lightnin’ Bill 1 —Southerner. Tnvercargil!. May 23-