THE POETASTER.
He loved to 101 l on the Parnassian mount, His pen to suck and all his thumbs fo count. "What poetry he'd written but for lack Of skill, when he had counted, to count J>aek! Alas! no more he'll climb the sacred steep To wake the lyre and put the world to sleep! All hie no talents to the earth revert, And Fame concludes the re.cpr4, "Pirt to Mitt --- "
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 16
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71THE POETASTER. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 16
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