1942-1943
By
WHIM-WHAM
HRISTMAS and the New Year Once more are here; I do not know that I Can here supply Convincing Rhyme or Reason Why, at this Season, Anyone should be bent On Merriment, Or greet it in the gay id pre-war Way. But, though a little shameaced, all the Same I find the Time revealing A Christmas Feeling And Traces, so it seems, Of New Year Gleams. No fancy Christmas Card Makes Hope die hard, Nor is it What we drink That makes us think Of Nineteen-Forty-three Indulgently; Nor need we celebrate Mere Change of Date, To read a Challenge there Not to despair, But, in what Years remain, To try again.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 2
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1141942-1943 New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 2
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