A TERRY POEM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 14 December 1907, Page 4

A TERRY POEM.

EMOTIONAL INSANITY. (The following is original Tersifica tion by Lionel Terry, and will be ol peculiar interest at the present time (says tlio North Otago Times). It was written for publication, and caine intc our bands the other day.) Mental experts declare that Harrj Thaw was suffering from emotional illsanity when he shot Stanford Whi'te, hia wifo's betrayer.—New York news item. I. Oh, what a wondrous body is the medical profession! 'Tis difficult indeed to give our feelings due expression. There's naught so dark that mortal men may do, or think, or say, That the doctors cannot diagnose and And collars'all your Silver plate and gives your wife a fright, And you shoot him in the interests of justice and humanity, Why, you prove yourself a victim <.f emotional insanity. 11. And if crowds of Russian Jews and Chows invade your peaceful land, And spread a few diseases of an extra special brand; And if they teach your boys and girls the latest things in vice, And generally prevent your getting peace at any price; And if at length you strike against a slate of things chaotic, And give free play to feelings which are mainly patriotic— Hash man! your action won't fit in with modern Christianity, Most clearly you're a victim of emotional insanity. 111. Again, if yon should run across a hopeless renegade, Who struts around and brags about the girls he has betrayed; And if he makes a victim of your daughter or your wife, You'd better cogitate a bit before you take his life. For remember that, however strong may he the provocation, You'll stand a chance of forfeiting your mental reputation. What! the doctors? Steady, man! Don't utter such profanity! Why, that's another symptom of emotional insanitv. iv. Then raise your hat and bend yo ir knees, and crawl in humble meekness, liefoie these wondrous medicos who probe your mental weakness. There's not a thing that man has done since the dawning of creation, That the experts cannot classify as mental aberration, And though it sounds suspiciously like blasphemy and libel, A unit a little tragedy that's men iioned in the Bible , They'll glance above their spectacle'-> and state with calm urbanity That Holy Moses suffered from emotional insanitv. ' LIONET- TKRRY.