VERSE IN PRAISE OF VERSE
Sir,Now let this minor poet emit, his word of praise for Whim-Wham’s wit. When radio and daily news, our hopes destroy and minds befuse, Evacuations everywhere and fresh withdrawals here and there, When all the world seems dark and drear-ful, the only thing that makes us cheerful, And bucks us up and kindles laughter, and makes us feel perhaps that after All, things aren’t so full of gloom and possibly there may be room, For smiles and brightness, just a bit, is chuckling over Whim-Wham’s wit. Byronic cleverness of rhyme is rivalled in his verse sublime, His metre, grammar, choice of phrase and such like things that now I praise, Bring joy and gladness to the heart of him or her who reads that part Of this illustrious weekly journal, which prophesies the things diurnal, Reaching us on waves ethereal or atmospherical or aerial An antidote to dreaded jim-jams, springs readily from rhymes of Whim-Wham’s, Long may he reign to cheer us ever, with wit so clear, so bright, so clever.
A.
G.
(Taupo).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 4
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179VERSE IN PRAISE OF VERSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 4
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