TRIOLET TRIO.
I. O life is Jeally very sweet' Jn this our land- of peace and plenty. There's pleasure in «ach hall and street, Q life 19 really very sweet. My heart -taps joy at every beat For I am* simply one and twenty ! O life is really very sweet In this our land of peace and plenty.
11. The other eve in careless mood
I grappled' pages from Beethoven. A friend thought they were rather gooS The other eve in careless mood. xOur world wagged simply as it should: Wild dreams and sweet dreams interwoven. The other eve in cwelesa mood I grappled pages from^ Beethoven.
' 111. It struck me that I'd like to mak«
A little lyric purely classic — Verses to hold one quite awake. It struck me that I'd like to make A thrill as from a weird earthquake, Or something quite as deep or basic. It struck me that I'd dike to make A little 'lyric purely classic.
TBIOLET. Tiie deeps -o' depth: love' 3 undertone,
While the suns born on. and out forever, Have taken: man — at least their own. The deeps' ©' depth:' love's undertone 1 , The /soul we can feel and feel alone. The" blood- astir and the glooms that gever — The deeps o' depth: love's undertone, While the suns burn on and out forever. li." yon Ka.ulba.ch.
— Lady of uncertain age (to horrid child): "And hotr old are you?" Horrid Child: "Five. How old are you?" Lady: "Oh, I don't remember the year -I "was born-" Horrid Child: "Well, then, tell me the century."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 77
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261TRIOLET TRIO. Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 77
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