THE KAISER'S DREAM.

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1917, Page 8

THE KAISER'S DREAM.

The fallowing clever veivcs hiive been reprinted in the Jjiveipooi bcho fiom a copy of that journal in IUU2j Uiey aie supposed t.j be translated from a memorandum found in tho German Emperor's wa..te-].a|.er bask.'i and are presiunaLly aii".ui.-! example of liis versatile "emus ! Oil, Me ! Oli, My : : A'.iti Hlvert-ii.e i ! ! ! Sit si ill my curb wliii" ! nraU: Me, i, Myself, 'J lie Th-mie, I he Stale, i din ilie eai i.n, llie mo"!), the sun, !>:.'!! hemisphere* am ! Oh. My ' J'i Ur-'v were i liuee, ihe Three l\j I-';. .1 am the Dipper, Xighl and i'Jjy, 'J.'h> and SuutlH in l'<'l"s-, lh«3 Milky Way* ! ;iin they dial walk <>r fly on.wing, ()[ swiiM, or creep • . liu everything. It makes me tremble like the aspen i ree To lliiuk I'm Me! An id blink like stars up in the sky Tu think I'm 1, And shrink in terror like a I'rigliW'licd ell T" realise that I'm Myself. Ye liliinerine; stnvo,* beneath iny iron heel, ' What know ye of the things T feel / Didst ever wake at dead of night And stand in awe of thine own. might] It took six days to make the land and Hut oe*nturies were passed in making Me. The universe? An easv task. But I Oh, Mr |