PUT ME AMONG THE IMMORTALS.
(Mr. H. G. Welk has recently stated that in future the greatest scientific discoveries will be in the direction of prolonging human; life by means of surgical operations.) Alas! that I was tiorn too soon, " Before the surgeon's knife Has learned the ■way to give the boon • Of long-extended life! I still must be my stomach's slavey - My large intestine's prey, Because I know no surgeon brave Who'll cut them out to-day. I care not for the aeroplane . Or gyroscopic car; For mc the poles are sought, in vain— . '' What matter where they are? •■'.- The only science that appears Of value in my eyes Is that which promises more years To man before he dies. Q men of science, cease, I pray, To wrestle with the air, Put charts of polar seas away— ; For warmer work prepare; ■■ ' ■ Prepare the anaesthetic, grip The keen and glittering knife, ;■' And through our innards, let. it-XJg... To qbe us longer life t. ; ' -' v
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 11
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