WHITHER ARE WE WITHERING?
(By a Pessimistic Person). The age is one of worrying, Of hurrying and flurrying. Of low, commercial trickery; Of coffee, mostly chickory. Of speeches, dull and sermonv; Of shoddy "made in Germany"; Of milk depraved by watering; Of Dreadnoughts built for slaughtering; Of Empire's downward tottering; Of penny-in-the-slottcring; Of scandals in society; Of halls without variety; Of profitless conjecturing; Of suffrage ladies lecturing; Of spook directed caperings; Of Kaiser TVilhelm's vaporings; Of aeroplaning dizziness; Of strikes and injured business; Of starved and homeless wanderers; Of rich and titled squanderers; An age that leaves us wondering Whereunto we are blundering'; Though prophets tell us pleasantly—
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 130, 10 September 1910, Page 10
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108WHITHER ARE WE WITHERING? Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 130, 10 September 1910, Page 10
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