THE POETRY OF MARRIAGE.
i — • —; — . • AND THE PROSE OF KENT. ' , "Poptry" was resorted to by some of tho ivatcrside workers' delegates in tho endeavour :o illustrate their troubles yesterday. Jlr. Jonos, in discussing the hardbhjps of the married worker, who has to pay &l a w.eek , rent, remarked that a poet iad written— "Marriago, if properly understood, Iβ to the virtuous and the good Y'< A paradise below ; " Unfortunately (oontiuued Mr. jTonea) marriage under the'present econoinio conditions in Wellington was more like, a hell. Mr, Cast, of Gisborne, capped the veree with an outrage on Keats, describing it as the observation of a man who was more practical than' a poot--"A thing of beauty is a joy until you marry it." (Laughter.)
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 5
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