TEMPORA MUTANTUR.
In former times when making rhymes I burned a midnight taper ; And wrought with care the many rare Qood things I put on paper ; For in those days there was a craze For stately odes and sonnets, ' That now appear as quaint and queer As mediaeval bonnets. To-day I sit, with hasty wit, y And, scribbling off a ballad, Could fill a book while Jane the cook Is getting up a salad ; For modern verse, if it rehearse Some milk-and-water passion With tripping ease, is sure to please The devotees of Fashion.
And we, who write but to invite The world's too-scanty praises, Must heed its whims, tho' psalms and hymns Be numbered in their phases. So, poet, fill your fated quill With Hybla's cloying honey, And make rondeau* if you would strew Your path in life with money !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1429, 15 February 1888, Page 6
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141TEMPORA MUTANTUR. Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1429, 15 February 1888, Page 6
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