DR. BAKEWELL AS POET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 203, 25 August 1908, Page 3

DR. BAKEWELL AS POET.

(To the Editor.) Shy-Prior to the arrival of .the U.S. fleet, I confess I regarded with some perturbation a probable inundation ™f what Miss Costagan would have called pothry," that its anchoring in our harbour might cause. Well, the fleet has been and gone, and, as I thought, the "pothry/' when, lo! Dr. Bakewell breaks forth into «ngu,g Hi understand Dr! Bakewell aright tins 18 his first attempt at poetry, and for. his encouragement I may say that I consider it superior to the great Dr. Johnson's first essay in verse: - . "Here lies good master duck Whom Samuel Johnson trod onIf it had HVd it had been good luck, For then wed had an odd one/" I have been a poet myself, and know something of a "poet's pains," but, alas! I am not now equal to the preparation of a couplet, but I am sure Dr. Bakewell will pardon mc if I conclude with an adapta-' tion : r Now. let ns sing. "Long lire the Kin-" And Bakewell, long live he; . And that, when nest he strikes his Ivre The strain may longer be. E. BELLHOUSE. Mt. Eden.