WHAT IS WHISKY ?

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 114, 13 May 1908, Page 6

WHAT IS WHISKY ?

What art thou, potent spirit of the north' I know 'tis ill that man should call thee master. Since from such servitude he cometh forth A man no more. His end shall bo Qisaster And he shall own before the day be done lhe sight of twain without the sense of erne. But though we do not let thee work thy will. Some say acquaintance with thee may be risky, Since if thou comest from a certain still vve can't be certain that thou art still whisky. But what is whisky? Here we are once more. Slumped, you observe, as badly as before. So our bright rulers have made haste to ask The wisest and most learned of our natiou To bend their mighty powers to the task, To glean the sum of human information And trace thee backward in the name of law To earliest and crudest usquebaugh. Nor need we wait through many a changing year Until we read tho answer of our sages (A Uetinitiou, doubtless, crisp and clear, Embodied iv ten thousand printed pages), lor until then, by everyone's consent "Whisky" will mean—what it has always, meant! ' TOUCHSTONE. "