ORIGINAL VERSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1917, Page 3

ORIGINAL VERSE.

WHEN FOOLS STEP IK. There's a well-known ancient proverb. Which keeps running; through my head, "That very often fools step in Where angels fear to trend. And I'vo often, often wondered, That if Kaiser Bill but knew, His actions right throughout the war Have proved this saying true.

For lie boasted from the verv start, Ves, he boasted of "The Day" When the length and breadth of Europe Should bow beneath his sway. And I'm sure ho never thought, friends. In his high and mighty pride. That he'd be upon the losing And not the winning side.

When he tore his way through Belgium Through a path both long and wide. Why, ho never even dreamed, friends, Of a turning of the tide. France, why, France was his for asking, Why, for that he'd planned the day, But be surely never reckoned Finding England in bis way.

And the powerful fleet he'd gathered, That mighty fleet of steel, He most surely never built it Just to lock it up in Kiel. Then .-ame the Maine, then Verdun, Twas the turning of the tide, And it slowly dawned on Kai-cr Bill fiis was the losing side.

And thus events keep showing With persistence, firm .and true, That when this war is finished In the world there's nothing new For Kaiser Bill will find out, When its hammered in his head, "That Very often fools step in Where angels fear to tread." —H.J.E., Koru.