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O* he expounds what he has read, en ~ repeats what she has About mg Wa and what’s in StoreAnd still I have not said a Word, Yet know there’s no Escape for me As soon as Mrs, Prattle brings The soft Entreaty out at last: "Do tell us what you think of Things!" Bay ag a tilted Teacup Rim The Ball of Talk is bounced to me; A Plate of toasted Buns is passed Round the expectant Gallery. God knows, and so ought they, that I Set up as neither Sage nor Seer! What Things they think I think about I haven't got the least Idea. " I T All depends what Things you mean-"’ I falter out, but on they go. How long the War is going to last Is what they'd really like to know, And any vague Remark may be For them a Portent or a Sign, Though all of them are well aware Their Guess is quite as good as mine. Yy/ 847 do I think of Things? Indeed, I think as Little as I can Of things of which the Outcome lies Pea ope the Thought of any Man. Whe only Course for him 's pestered so for what he thinks, To cnn the subject or preserve A Gilence stony as the Sphinx’s! apts
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 166, 28 August 1942, Page 6
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