ENDOCRINE
Delos all our human weakness and rascality We now can blame the glands of personality: We're good, if these queer organs function rightly, And bad, whenever they’re unbalanced slightly. Hitler-Goering, Goebbels-all the band Went wrong because their glands got out ot hand, And thus the course of history may be changed lf these mysterious bodies be deranged. Active adrenal glands can build a heroWhen over-active, they may mould a Nero; . And-tho’ the nation may seem high-falutin’-Hyperthyroidism produced Rasputin. Musso was often in-a nasty humourLet’s put it dawn to parathyroid tumour. The Man of Destiny worked fast, went farThen crashed; Because of some unlucky star? Because Dame Fortune chose at last to frown? Nay! His pituitary let him downSo Boney landed up on St, Helena. A last of all we come to Messalina, Who now, along with other wanton ladies, Doubtless bewails her wickedness in Hades. Yet ha the demons pause in their grim tas Of stoking infernal fires-might pause and ask Why thesg poor females must endure damnation All on unt of glandular aberrationMethi the Devil himself should feel compu For finn folks with endocrine dystunction,
So next time Junior kicks his little brother And uses fisticuffs upon his motherRise not in wrath with strap between your handsIt’s just the little darling’s ductless glands!
Joan
Hyde
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 15
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217ENDOCRINE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 15
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