Mr Jamea Dooglaa (aaya the "Observer") finds "love" lacking in sufficiency of rhyme*, but on the wb>le, the poets have managed prety well—one ban not noticed any decided avoidance of the subject. After all, root of the really big topics axe difficult from the rhymester's point of view. What can you rJo with "world" or "heaven," "life," or "death"? A curious chapter might even be written on the expedient* of the poet* to find rhvmes to ''God.''
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19676, 20 July 1929, Page 13
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