THE ARCYROPELECUS
By RUTHYN
I was turning the page of a magazine, When sudden, there stared at me, The Argyropelecus, weird and wise, With chastened mouths and protruding eyes, From the depths of Bermuda's sea. I mused on the sights they must havi seen, „ .5 As they drifted round Nonsuch Isle, To give them that Argyropelican air. That mug-wump look and insouciant stare, As if nothing was much worth while. I know they are silver and gleaminf bright, And studded with coloured lights, With telescopical- lamps for eyes. The picture filled me with vague silT* prise, And I've wondered for nights and nighU. Perhaps as they speed on the sea 3 sub* way, „ They are beckoned, then ordered " Stop. So they show their disgust, As speed fiends must, When dodging the traffic cop.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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