Bunker's Ballade of Suratura

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 308, 7 February 1910, Page 4

Bunker's Ballade of Suratura

Members of Parliament, bigwigs, cooks, Laundresses, grocers, and sailors bold, Sellers of cabbages, squibs and books, Dolts that by lawyers are bought and: sold, | Soapboilers, miners for coal and gold, | Punters who smash on the gay gee-gee, Playeiv? and puritan, saint and scold— All of 'em drink Suratura Tea! Bailiffs and sharebrokers, pluckers and rooks, (Hawkers of jewellery, gold and "rolle.l," Hatchers of companies, plots and spooks, Naughty black elieep that have left the fold, Dealers in muddledom, murk and mould, Patriots that roar o'er the land and sea, Pricked politicians left out in the cold, All ol 'em drink Suratura Tea! Chaps that get famous by swinging their "dooks," Curates and mimes (by fair dames extolled), Roysterers heaping wild oats in stooks. Divas (don r t swallow all stories told), Crabby misanthropists hoary and old, Martyrs (there's one of 'em left, maybe, Spendthrifts, and misers who hoards what they hold, All of 'em drink Suratura Tea! L'ENYOY. Ships sailing safely, or derelicts shoaled, Splendor or poverty (you, sir, or me) — All men need solace, ere yet they are poled— All of 'em drink Suratura Tea! —William Bunker, Colonel.