THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY
Sir,-Mr. Sibson is quite right to take me to -task for misquoting Kipling ("strings" instead of "springs.") My explanation, not excuse, is that I copied the incorrect version in The Listener. Here are the lines corrected: "Teach us Delight in simple things, The Mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness tree of evil done, And Love fo all men ’neath the sun!" Now, Sir, all I said was that these particular lines are doggerel and should not have formed part of "Thanksgiving for Victory." Your readers can judge for themselves. I deprecate Mr. Sibson’s hot attack on me for decrying Kipling, for I never did any such thing, I certainly did not say or think that it was "a sort of hall-mark of intelligence" to do so, I am not prepared to debate the rest of Mr. Sibson’s propositions. I might indeed agree with them,
VINCENT
COUNTY
(Wellington).
: (This letter would have appeared sooner if it had not been mislaid. We apologise for the | delay.-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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168THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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