OUR OWN VERSEMAKERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12477, 19 June 1926, Page 16

OUR OWN VERSEMAKERS

FLOWERS. Pansies are neat. Violets are sweet. The buttercup glistens. . . Tie’s cheerful and kind. And every flower listens To the song of the wind. BESSIE PERCY Alfredton. (Aged 12). [Your little flower song is sweet, because it is short and simple, Bessie. The rhymes are right, though the last line sounds just a shade too long. You could have made that right by leaving out the first “the” and making “song” into “songs.” Somehow I think it would have been a betterbalanced little song if you had even repeated the first two lines . . « like this: Pansies are neat. Violets are sweet. The buttercup glistens. . . He’s cheerful and kind. Pansies are neat. Violets are sweet. And every flower listens To songs of the wind. What do you think ?—FAIRIEL.] • » • ■. • UPON A LADY. • • • • Her pretty feet like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep. Did soon draw in again. LUCY DE LA COUR Martinborough. (Aged 11). [Your little lady has a very Old World air, Lucy ... so dainty and demure those small feet are. And the little verse is as complete as she. Tell us more about her in some more brief lines, little Versemaker.—FAlßlEL.]