RENT-RACKED AND RUINED

NZ Truth, Issue 58, 28 July 1906, Page 1

RENT-RACKED AND RUINED

(For "Truth."} For. Sale— the Earth— a.sacrifice. To Let — the Light of Day ; ' . Bend for plans of Paradise, Also the Milky-way ; Price list of Planets and the Sun <| Apply to Landlord, Wellington, . « .' • ■ m •■ Bay, why should, we for ever toil> 1 (A habit -we have got) !Eo feed the hungry man of soil, ** \ Who wants at least a " lot " t Why toil until the tomb -we fill x For wages; merely dent, .- r JTust to be the bankers till" We save enough for rent ? Why labor for the landlords' ncedS^ \ 'The heathen, Hell begot? He comes in on the corn-time seed} And — he soweth not. In some sequestered sheltered cavo The ancients slept o' m'ghts ; There was no rent-collecting knava With legal robbing rights. He takes the widow's sugared ginj Our wages, bread and meat ; •". . He really thinks it's good of him , To give us a receipt I We banquet not on baker's make/ The tradesmen are unpaid ; Compelled to eat the nameless cakg Our loving wives have made. Soon we'll be" nd more— or less, Don't worry round to leave, Tho' life is very hard at best, He lets us breathe, — LUCri