POETS' CORNER

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2608, 10 April 1926, Page 6

POETS' CORNER

IF- ? (By “Our Sam.”) "If all the sea was made of beer, And all the land of cheese, , And crayfish grew (already cooked) Like leaves upon tli.e trees, , And bank notes fell instead of rain, And all the grass was gold, And summer days were not too hot, And winter days too cold; If houses sprouted in the night, And motor ears cost n’il, And everyone was full of Ivi in, And. no one ever ill. If fowls laid ninety eggs a day, And work was said to lie A. crime, arid everybody lived Three thousand years and three; If every man had thirty wives, Aml all of them were dumb, And diamonds grew like hazel nuts, j .And cows provided rum, And cigarettes were three feet long, And politics were barred, And loaves of bread were thick as logs And measured by the yard; If every horse we backed romped home And everything was free, And all the girls wore crepe de chine, A .And smiled at you and me; Alt! —well! ’twould be a merry world! .But some perverted owl. Some pessimistic," ballv cow Would find a. cause to growl.