Bunker's Ballade of Suratura

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 310, 9 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, Bolts that by lawyers are bought aad sold, Soapboilers, miners for coal and gold, Punters who smash on the gay gee-gee, Players and puritan, saint and scold— All of 'em drink Suratura Tea! Bailiffs and sharebroicers, pluckers and rooks, •Hawkers of jewellery, gold and "roll el," Hatchers of companies, plots and spooks, Naughty black sheep 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 ot '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, Martv'r.s (there's one of 'em left, maybe, Spendthrifts, and misers who hoards what they hold, All of 'em drink Suratura Tea! L'ENVOY. Ships sailing safely, or derelicts shoabd, 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.