HOW IT LOOKS TO A REACTIONARY.
Oar young intellectuals beard with disgust Such words as "You ought to," "You should'nt," "You must." And a greater than they seemed a notion bo odd That they passed resolutions, abolishing God. Now before they abolished Him, God had created The male and the female, foredoomed to be mated; And the female careerlst'B impatient of checks. So they passed resolutions abolishing sex. But sex, though abolished in all occupations. Had a knack of recurring in human relations; Attempts to restrain it were fruitful of quarrels, L So they passed resolutions abolishing morals. What really annoyed them, or so one collects. Was that causes still went on producing effects (Like the wages of sin in Victorian tracts) ; So they passed resolutions abolishing facts. They abolished in verses the metre and rhyme. In sculpture the form, and in music the time; . And as courtesy seemed to them bourgeois and flat. They passed resolutions abolishing that. Time brings its revenges! I hear' them deplore That all they've abolished goes on as before, When the lesson strikes h6me. -will they settle their schisms By one last resolution, abolishing "isms?" —Macflacknoe in the "Nation and Athenaeum."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 22
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HOW IT LOOKS TO A REACTIONARY.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 22
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