COMING ROUND THE BEND

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 14

COMING ROUND THE BEND,

With

Denis

Glover

HAVE always admired the independence and complete elf-possession of eldérly women who are widews, whose children will have either died or dispersed, who have known love, anger and sorrow, and who have emerged triumphantly with a true appreciation of a cup of tea, and the necessity of wearing black. « WOMAN will never be satisfied when she tries to fashion man after her own image. MANY things which used to’ be simple good manners are now Law, How difficult it is to enforce either. A SMALL boy gravely informed me that the North Island and the South Island are two pieces of land separated by the Union Company OO many people only live together in order to shaie one another’s miseries. $

ANY an argument can be ended by saying, "You don’t need mountaineering boots on the flat." H, Johnny Gay, they say today, It may be a great pity But the world has proved It’s better to be wise than witty And never to have loved. -Clearly it’s your duty . To spend no time on rhyme Or love or beauty. \ ’'HEN a man from the bush said that after West Coast weather ‘the sun was splitting the winter trees," I thought of many poets who are too preoccupied to cut their wives’ kindling. JHY do we still refer, in thie socalled machine age, to "manu"-fac-turérs? (QUR men are always Secret Agents. The enemy can only run to spies. Communists mount a podium: democrats deliver from a dais.