A SELF-DECEIT.
He thinks he’s a cynic and closes his eyes To the sun which is faithfully shining. And he vows that to carp is the way to be wise, And that life is but slumber and dining, Persistent he struggles his conscience to throw Into states that are called cataleptic He wants to be 1 modern and wicked,’ you know, When in fact he is only dyspeptic. In silence he winks at himself with a leer In the presence of gaiety harmless. His sigh is a growl and his laugh is a sneer As he vows that existence is charmless. And he looks on himself with a pitiful pride As a vastly superior skeptic ; His claims misanthropic he won’t hear denied, When in fact he is only dyspeptic.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XII, 21 March 1896, Page 336
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129A SELF-DECEIT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XII, 21 March 1896, Page 336
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