Intentions
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WHIM-WHAM
WANT to see Privilege flattened, I’m all for abolishing Class, I’m open to any Suggestions For bringing such Wonders to pass, There isn’t much Hope for the Cynic Who’s always ting the Worst, Or the Pessiinist blindly refusing to find His cherished Forebodings reversed. FF wagel the Aims we are hearing so much of . Like Freedom and Justice all round, Are apt to fall short of Achievement If the Sense doesn’t follow the Sound. Millennial murmurs surrdund us, Utopias breed by the score, For Nothing need seem an impossible Dream When qualified, "After the War." | ee simple to draw up Agreements, On Basic Conceptions and Aims; But to reach a Consensus of MethodsOh then comes the Fun, and the Games! The Devil has weapons for dealing With Those who declare themselves Friends, And among his Machines is the Conflict of Means : To precisely identical Ends. I HOPE that the Right will be with us. I hope that no Scruples are Left, hope for an Order no longer So deeply and cruelly cleft; But I haven't a Hove that Cajoling Will soften the Tiger in Man; And I’m tempted to ask those who tackle that Task, "But Gentlemen, what is your Plan?’
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 169, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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204Intentions New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 169, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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