To an Old Set

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 26, 9 January 1931, Page 29

To an Old Set

Friend, when I dwell upon your faded beauty, Your mottled panel and your splintered door, I think of one who nobly did his duty And helped to cheer me, back in ’24. I do not join with those who so defame you For clumsiness and ugliness combined, Nay, friend o’ mine, I neither chide nor blame youI am not so unkind. A time there was when envious old stagers Beholding in amaze your polish high Indulged among themselves in private wagers, Deciding who might have you should I die. I recollect one relative displaying An envious glance, a stealthy sidelong look, What time he wondered how much I’d been payingA mental note he took! And now, old friend, good-bye-those days are ended. For you and I must part, sad to relate ; A lot of things have lately been invented And put you very sadly out of date. No more will your emitters glow with glory, No more your worn-out batteries be tapped, For soon you'll reach the finish to your storyIn short, youre to be scrapped!

C.P.

P.

(in "Wireless Magazine.")