A SONG AGAINST SPEED.
Of speed the savour and the sting, None but the weak deride; But ah, the joy of lingering, About the countryside! The swiftest wheel, the conquering run, We count no privilege Beside acquiring in the sun The secret of the hedge. Where is the poet fired to sing The snail's discreet degrees, A rhapsody of sauntering, A gloria of ease; Proclaiming theirs the baser part Who consciously forswear The delicate and gentle art Of never getting there? —E. V. LUCAS, in “ Highways and Byways.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18088, 23 February 1927, Page 10
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