NURSERY RHYMES FOR GROWN-UP CHILDREN.

New Zealand Tablet, 26 May 1921, Page 32

NURSERY RHYMES FOR GROWN-UP CHILDREN.

“0 Jimmie, go and fetch the paper home, For Granny wants to read the cables.” Quoth Jimmie in a mocking tone “Righto, Granny, they’re some fables!” Munchausen’s gone and Andersen is cold, Poor Grimm is dead and Aesop too: Through cables now tall tales are told And nothing’s left for them to do. The Welshman George with Greenwood’s out Their silly dupes with stuff to fill, And any lout can raise the shout, “Let Irish rebels foot the bill.” “Oh, syrup fresh, from corpses made Is eaten now at Buda Pest; And axle-grease for wheels, ’tis said, Is just the flesh of men gone west.” So said the cables Jimmie’s Granny read, She thinks, her poor head swimming round, That Solomon himself had never said A truth more sacred and profound. That was the stuff on which to feed the troops— Good old propaganda copy ’Twas ladled out wholesale to day-lie dupes Doped silly with imperial poppy. ' Prostrate before the grinning cable god Our editors were daily seen: ' / ~ They durst not blink nor wink nor nod — ’Twould give'the. show away, I ween. ~ J. Lynch.