THE YEARS
As children, busy, with their toys, Add brick to brick, until the pile Begins to lose its equipoise, And. holding anxious breath .the while, i. . They add another—rnthqr rash—- • And there's a shudder and a sway. And the tower topples with, a crash, And nil the thin gs arc swept away: Bo play wc with our foolish years Until they fall about our ears. .. R.B.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 10
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67THE YEARS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 10
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