THE GAY LIFE.
He hurries away every morning to cat eft a certain car; He goes to work where hundreds of other toilers are; • • • His course is never varied; be has no time to 'stray; • . The route that is the shortest he takes day after day; He works upon a schedule that changes not at all In winter or in summer, in springtime or in fall. / He starts in every morning, just as he did before^ To do a certain duty and never any more; He has thirty minutes at noon to rest and eat, [ And when the day is ended he hurries to the street. To start his journey homeward, night after night the same, Jammed in VitK ither people who do /not know his name. He does not know his neighbors, to them he is unknown;; Beyond his little orbit his face is never shown ; • . He hurries every morning to catch a certain «ar; • ■ ; ■ At -night he; drags where other sad- '•• faced strap-hangers are, ' And wonder* "how tlte people exist out ■on the (farms, Deprived of social pleasures and all the city's charms; ■■ ■' '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 6 (Supplement)
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185THE GAY LIFE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 6 (Supplement)
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