VAGRANT VERSE
THOSE INTRIGUING SINS. (Written for the Southland Times.) When I was young, ah, very young, The greatest treat I could be given Was past the bronze Queen to be driven, And past that place where men were hung Until at last we reached the Zoo! The bears, the birds, the apes were seen, Fat sea-lions and camels lean; And then we’d rush, pell-mell, to view The lions at their feeding time— A sight to us dread yet sublime. Their whiskers always seemed benign, Their manes were really made for stroking, Their roars were always ribald joking, Their tempers, all things counted, fine And yet within my little brain Whene’er I saw them crushing bonce And munching flwh of aged roans, 1 knew them, all the prey they’d slain— I loved and feared their mighty rage, And longed to risk life in their cage. —Manceb. Invercargill, October 14, 1928.
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Southland Times, Issue 20616, 15 October 1928, Page 4
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150VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 20616, 15 October 1928, Page 4
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