CUCKOO'S SECOND THOUGHTS.
The rapture passes: but a month ago You. like a spendthrift, flung your notes awav, Scattering them to all who stood below (Like the laburnum with its mint. Jess gold Not to be bought or sold), So that the world was very rich in May. To-day there is a change; after one note, You’re sometimes smitten with a sudden doubt; “I fear that 1 have got the thing by rote,” You seem to say, “I’ve said all thia before, And do 1 grow a bore’”— And so decide to leave the other out. It is not for a single auditor (And him your most obedient) to complain That thus you stint your stinted repertoire; The puma donna, once her contract' o'er. Rejoices us no more. Till the new seaaou brings her l»a<k again, S ■
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 21 August 1926, Page 9
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137CUCKOO'S SECOND THOUGHTS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 21 August 1926, Page 9
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