VAGRANT VERSE
REPROACHFUL THANKS. (Written for the Southland Times.) Immortalized in your poetic ecstasy, I am bereft of life-urge. What have you done, unhappy southern bard? Charmingly you blend grace with truthfulness in commending my verses, my dainy verses. “One.of the nine best nine poets in New Zealand” you call me. Your praises buzz as usefull}* — and as prettily—r as honey bees in the garden (the garden of the intellect, of course). ■ Your desire to become one of Us—one of the nine—seasons your praise with judgment. But what is posterity, compared with the shattered present? Why, oh, Southerner, why did you find it necessary to refer to my nose? There are some things that were better left unsung. —N. SSouthland, May 26, 1930.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 6
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123VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 6
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