Progress of the 0.

Otago Witness, Issue 2579, 19 August 1903, Page 77

Progress of the 0.

When I was turning thirty year 3 - I used to comb ivy hair, And heave a heavy sigh to note The thinress growing there. I held my mirror up io view. As you have done. I know The spot appearing in the back Just like A little 0.

And as the 3'ears progressed, in vain I strived to blot it out, AuA tried all sorts of patent stuff, As yoji- have trird, no doubt; - - But naught, alas! could stop it, for Its mission was to grow, ( And now, at thirty-five, I havo A somewhat Larger — O. I contemplate with sinking heart Tho work of future years, For Time, with his relentless scythe, Is ,mowing towards my ears. All hope is lost, there's naught to do But sit and let it go, Oh, Time! reverse your footsteps, and give Me back My little o! .> But what's the use of worrying? We're many, hand in hand ; And hairs arc like the hour glass and Its ever-falling sand. And, sooth! of all my jolly friends, The jolheet I know Are those who have the roundest and -The largest Kind of— o. — By Geohge W. Stevexs, in the Toledo Times.