VAGRANT VERSE
THE ORETI ANTHOLOGY.
590.—CLEVER VISITORS.
(Written for the Southland Times.) How shall ice know ourselves When they have done with us? They come to us with famous names And make what’s called a fuss, They write us up in London, In Paris, Berma and Berlin; They prove all our short-comings, But praise the land we live in.
They say it is a lovely land Where beauty, far and wide, Of forest, river, lake, and mountain, Is such, to cause true pride. And then those clever visitors Their facile pages mar, By telling the whole world at large How very dull we are. —SOUTHERNER. Invercargill, January 28, 1934.
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Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 6
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109VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 6
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