THE LONG ROAD

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 6 December 1916, Page 3

THE LONG ROAD

(By Walt Mason.) That roads are long to Easy street, is true —all winners preach it; and if you move on sluggish feet, it's doubtful if you'll reach :t. 1 see soiiie lads who work lor hire their leaden trilbvs dragging; 'tlie ■smallest effort makes them tire, ;>nd all they kuo.v is lagging. .They face their work .with dismai eroijiiN. and grumblings stale and wheezy; they'll never bask beneath the oaks that line the street called Easy. The road is long to Easy street, too rough for any telling, and one must tireless be and fleet who there would bare his dwelling. On, watch the me,n who there ab'do, the men who dance and gambol, and you will see upon each hide the scar of stone and bramble. They met disaster with a. smile, their mien wa s bold and hi 00/ v, they vaulted over fence and stile, ;i-ul reached the street called Easy. The sl\igy;nrcl who is so :ifr it : <l that h A too hard will labour, will loaf and languish in the shade and cuss his winning neighbour; and each misfortune overwhelms this man with sp ; ' cheesy; he'll never rest beneath the elms that line the street called Easv.