Verse For To-day
Others will come who have more to offer, Rank and fashion and well-filled ■ purses, I have only a book to proffer, Filled with my jingling, cynical verses. Weak am I as a ship-wrecked rover, You have charms that are strong as Circe’s: What will you do with your poor lost lover Stammering jingling cynical verses? Yours the succour 1 look for only, Yours the heart and the tender ' • mercies. Ah! do not send me back to my lonely, Pitiful, jingling, cynical verses. From “ To Phyllis,” by Colin D. B. Ellis, 1895
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27275, 29 December 1949, Page 1
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94Verse For To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27275, 29 December 1949, Page 1
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