STRAY VERSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3148, 18 February 1911, Page 4

STRAY VERSE.

A GUIDE TO OPERA. Bang, thump, and crash, . with a roll of the drum— That's the “motif” anouncing the hero will come : Ting-a-ling-hng; and an appeggio— The heroine's off for a walk with her beau, Two minor chords, with the clarionet's shriek— The public is sure there is vengeance to wreak; Umpty-dump, umpty-dump, down in the bass— The villain is seeking the hero’s disgrace ; Tweediedy, tweedledy, two or three times — Here reference is made to most hideous crimes; Clashes cacophonous stunning the brain— The hem’s in danger, that’s perfectly plain ; Toot, toot! The cornet rings out on the air— He triumphs and seizes his foe by the hair; Mush, mush, played slow and repeated “ad fin.”'— The hero is kissing the fair heroine! —William Wallace Whiteloc'k, in “Munsey’s Magazine.'* 1911. Ours is the coming year, all ours; Ours with its fortune and its fame; Ours with its sunshine after showers, Ours with its shattered hopes and shames— Nay, nay. kit ne’er a shadow fall Across the threshold of the year; Hope is a beacon for us all, That points to the path of duty clear. Be brave, and work, not idly dream ; With purpose, noble and sincere, We. one and all, may yet redeem # Last year! —Horace LennartJ, in the "Sporting