RETROGRADE PROGRESSION.

Grey River Argus, 12 July 1922, Page 6

RETROGRADE PROGRESSION.

(By “ Laboristo. ”) When there’s a task that must, be done, ■How easy ’tis, when all, as one, Agree upon a common plan; With each to do the best he can. How much harder though, my brother, When each one pulls against the other. Then energy is spent for nought, Though each may have his hardest wrought. By chance, a swan, a crab and roach, Were once all harnessed to a coach; And easy was the task for three, Had they but worked in harmony. But heavenward the swan did sour, And that way tried the coach to draw. The crab a backward journey tried; The roach kept pulling all one side. The end was, as you have inferred, The vehicle was never stirred. Now, who was right, and whom to blame Is more than I can well explain. But seems to me that you and I Must learn this lesson, by-and-bye If we would draw the progress van, We first must all agree the plan. Pulling every way, as now, We’ll never shift it from the slough ’Twill never reach the journey’s end. No matter how we rive and rend