COMING ROUND THE CHRISTMAS BEND
with
Denis
Glover
RELIEVING in Father Christmas Is a pleasant annuat task, But which one is the real one I sometimes blankly ask? The one with whiskers in the shop With a hotly scarlet blazer Inviting me to shave myself With an electric razor? -The whiskery, red-faced, padded one With the most peculiar notion That for prickly heat in summertime I need soothing lotion? -The one, white-whiskered in top boots, Who thinks it would be grand If I wore soleless sandals For walking on hot sand? -Or the one who tells me I should buy A car with a sunshine roof While whiskers-he, apparently, Drives reindeer on the hoof? -Or the family one who says how nice And wipes his whiskers on my ice And says he’ll have a whisky-twice-Or a squash and soda even: Tell me, please, which one of the lot Which one to believe in? SCOTTISH SUPPLEMENT Oh, white white as the eider yarn, Whiter whiter nor green, Is the bonny beard o’ the cottonwool That he pu’s ower our e’en. ~
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 18
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179COMING ROUND THE CHRISTMAS BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 18
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