A Poet’s Philosophy
Outstanding and unprecedented honour was accorded the national poet of Australia, recently, when the Duke of York unveiled a bust of Adam Lindsay Gordon in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey. Here is a fragment of his philosophy:— “No game was ever worth a rap For a valiant man to play Into which no accident, no mishap, Could possibly find its way.” , “Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.” •: a “And sports like life, and life like sport, ' It ain’t all skittles and beer.” “Look before you Iteap, if you like, but if You mean leaping, don’t take too long Or the weakest place will soon grow stiff And the strongest doubly, strong.” \
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 252, 21 July 1934, Page 20
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128A Poet’s Philosophy Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 252, 21 July 1934, Page 20
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