"DUE TO"
I OW CAN the penman, so acute and knowing, Ignore the difference ‘between "due" and "owing’’? A literary crime, from which, you'd think, The raw beginner, horrified, would shrink. "Due to" the drought, the farmer is in trouble, Which is to say, "the drought produced the debtor," "Due to" his luck, the gambler wins his double, Which is to say "the luck produced the bettor"’; "Due to" his folly, Brown has lost his money, His folly was his father, obviously; "Due to’ her industry, the bee gets honey, That is, the industry begot the bee; "Due to" old Goebbels’ lying propaganda, The average German got no information, The fellow, therefore, was a product and ‘a Mere effect of Goebbels’ propagation; "Due to" the efforts of the kind Dominions, Shortage of food is not so bad in Britain, That shortage, you perceive, no two opinions, To the Dominions’ debit must be written.
Arnold
Wall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 33
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155"DUE TO" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 33
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