Verse for To-day
Cannot a man live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi? Or, through the world with comfort go, That never heard of Doctor Blow? So help me God, I hardly have, And yet I eat, and drink, and shave, Like other people, if you watch it, And know no. more of stave or * crochet, , Than did the primitive Peruvians, Or those old ante-queer-Diluvians That lived in the unwashed world with?' Tubal, Before that dirty blacksmith ■ Jubal By stroke on anvil, or by summ’at Found out, to his great surprise, the gamut. ‘From “Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers,” by Charles Lamb, 1775 —1834.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27096, 2 June 1949, Page 1
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105Verse for To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27096, 2 June 1949, Page 1
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