Slightly Shaken
By
WHIM-WHAM
Ayre the News, and feeling much inclined To put the War a Moment from my Mind, I realise more keenly than before The full Significance of Total War. Even the Price of Eggs I must relate To some new Symptom of our warlike State; In vain I seek a single printed Line That does not hold a Portent or a Sign Propitious or unlucky for our Cause In this most inescapable of Wars, And if its Relevance should seem in doubt, Some public Voice is sure to point it out. But no — there’s one Exception, one Report, a hardly pleasant, of a different ort, No logic known, not even Politicians’ Can class an Earthquake under Wa: Conditions, Or use t!. Language o!.the Fronts to tell How Wellington’s five thousand Chimneys fell! The Epicentre, whence those Tremors Oo ran, he Masterton, not Somewhere in apan; And if the Nation trembled, that was no Result of any Threat from Tokyo, Oh, gentle Shock, Oh might-have-been Disaster, Man a ng Destruction on a Vaster Scale t poor Nature even under stands, So primitive the Forces she commands! Content with Chimneys, does she then despair To match with Earth Man’s Tremors in the Air?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 159, 10 July 1942, Page 6
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204Slightly Shaken New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 159, 10 July 1942, Page 6
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