WHAT IS BETTER?
After all is said and done, What is better than a row (Please pronounce to rhyme with o) In the pleasant morning sun, With some bottled beer in tow ; With your luncheon in the stern, Waiting for its happy turn ; And your fish-line hanging free Where the shining sun fish be And the water long-legs glide Knowingly from side to side ; Where the shadows from the trees Change their form with every breeze, And the water murmurs long, Like the cadence of a song— What is better than to float Smoothly in your well rowed boat, With a comrade near at hand (Some green fellow from the land) Who, like any ardent Turk, Lets you loaf and does the work ? L M. Sill.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1894, Page 432
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126WHAT IS BETTER? New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1894, Page 432
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