Gentle Georgics

Observer, Volume XXXI, Issue 41, 24 June 1911, Page 9

Gentle Georgics

A CORONATION COLLECTION OF THE KING'S NAMASAKES

George Rex, we should not hope in ■vain,

Will have a long, prosperous reign, To obtain this he'll need Just to follow the lead Of his father, and peace seek to gain.

George Lett is a gentleman small, Who will toddle along at your call, With Obsebvebs to sell, And 'tis easy to tell That our Georgie is not slow at all.

George George is a genius whose rule

Extends o'er the Technical School ; He wants his new college To spread forth his knowledge And intellect bring to the fool.

George Tutt is a gentleman young, Who is said to be strong in the lung.

But we also observe That with wonderful nerve Ho keeps strong control of his tongue. George Reid is a songster of note, Who's endowed with a musical throat. He can eas'ly, they say, Reach the high note of X., Which can beat Abel Rowe, kindly note.

George Lee is a sharebroker cute, Who, your taste in investments can suit.

He can give you a tip On the subject of scrip, And the latest quotations afoot

George Higgins possesses a name That by Lib. Labs, is held in high fame.

George is fond of the strife Of political life,

And his passion for that you can't time.

George Dixon, 'tis plain to the view, Is boss of the N.Z.R.U., When he sits in the chair All are wont to declare That his style could be equalled by few.

George Gribben's a lawyer of note, Who knows ev'ry law off by rote. And in circles Masonic It acts like a tonic When George goes a-riding the goat. George Fowlds has won high acclamation As monarch of our education. Let us hope in this song That his reign may be long, For he's in an appropriate station.

George Main up in Hamilton town Is a boniface known to renown. You may bet that he is Toasting George Rex in fizz— A toast that will always go down.

George Sayers is a motorist bold, Tho' we have, we remember, been

told That his car once broke down

Fifty miles from the town, And poor George caught a terrible cold.

George Wolfe is the gallant O.C. Of our Auckland defenders, and he Fills the.billet right well So we'll keep, truth to tell, This Wolfe" at the door, plain to see.

George Buttle- upon the Exchange His sharebrokeiv colleagues can range, But he cannot bring ease To those wicked Waihis, Which is really remarkably strange. George Edgecumbe, on Hamilton's Press,

Is known as a power, all confess. And it can't be denied That he's quite "Argus-eyed," If you doubt it, look up his address.

George Gillon's a medico great, Who can eas'ly with skill amputate Your arm or your nose, And fix up all your woes In professional manner ornate.

George Garland's a garland aesthetic, And in style he is most energetic. Educational lore He has in great store, And you can't ever make him splenetic.

George Baildon's the pride of Grey Lynn

(Where they bar all such liquors as gin).

All the Grey Lynnets say That if George went away, They would think it a terrible sin,

George Allport, as Sec. of Marine, Is the best that was ever yet seen You can learn from his lips All the facts about ships, And also about quarantine.

George Patterson, warrior neat, From his busby right down to his feet, Of the garrison corps Is the pride, and if war Should occur, he the foe could defeat.

George Henning's the king of the road

In a motor-car built a la mode. People say he is keen On a flying machine, If that's so, the next world's his abode.

George Martin builds pills, likewise he

Is a dignified kind of Jaipee. Is he wishful to fine This here poet divine P— What a very mean thing that would be!

George Monro is a reverend Scot, Who eloquence plenty has got. You can tell by his phiz That this meenister is Quite one of the best of the lot.

George Bloomfield is fond of some fun

Per medium of rod and of gun, And the pheasants all say When he passes their way, '' Let us scoot, or our lives are done."

George. Tyler went out on the wing, To shake the right hand of the King,

As he did with King Ned, With a blush rosy red, For George is a bashful young thing,

George Cutts is an expert, they say, At the shooing of rats far away Out at fair Onehunga, And to many a younger Man he could give points at such play.

George Court is an elegant swell, In the " rag" trade he's said to excel. And 'tis certain that fashion With him is a passion, And the reason 'tis not hard to tell.

George Aldridge is fond of the muse, And his rhetoric none can refuse. But the fact still remains That despite all his pains, Steott BennetA won't come to his views. George Winstone, 'tis good to relate, Is a monarch of coal, sure as fate, And 'tis evident quite That 'tis palpably right To remark that he carries much wefighc.

George Basley, it seems to this bard, May be deemed a complete patent card,

He's a gent big and burly, With whiskers so curly, And 53 high in the-public regard

George Allsopp's an architect great, Who plans sundry buildings ornate

For the Hospital Board,

And much knowledge is stored ~ln his cranium quite up to date.

George Garlick is versed in affairs Appertaining to tables and chairs, And in things controversial In matters commercial He is quite up to snuff in affairs. George Creagh's a surveyor who wrangles "With problems of mutinous angles, it may justly be stated : nowe'er complicated The problem, the job he ne'er mangles.

tieorge Goldsbro is a select And very complete architect j And his ev'ry design in each feature's so fine That there never is aught to correct.

George Seagar's good iron, you bet, xiis equal has .not been found yet ; in nis ironclad fine lie sets sail o'er the brine, On manoeuvres so nautical set.

George Eliott possesses a store Ul profoundest commercial lore. As regards £.s.d. He is well known to be An expert whom none can ignore.

George Dunnett, together,

long years.

Was a champion at booting, tha leather ;

Yes, when football was, 1 on, Our George always shone, No matter how bad was th© weather.

George Fraser's a veteran staid Of the iron and engineer trade. He knows it, 'tis said, Right from A down to Z— He's the boss of the iron brigade.