STRAY VERSE.
NEW MEANINGS
Our language undergoes a change, As most tilings do. And words assume a wider range With meanings new. An instance is before, you laid, A man was talking with a maid. He asked the damsel if she'd fly With him some day, She asked the man to specify, Or plainly say Just what lie meant; that is to state Whether <lope or aviate. ON THINKING GLAD. Never mind a change of scene — Try a change of thinking. What if tilings seem sordid, mean, What’s the use of blinking? Life's not always storm and cloud, .Somewhere stars are shining, Try to think your joys out loud. Silence all repining. By degrees, by thinking light. Thinking glad and sweetly. You'll escape the stress of night. Worry gone completely; Get the habit of looking for Sunbeams pirouetting. Tapping gaily at your door — Surest cure for fretting.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3212, 6 May 1911, Page 11
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147STRAY VERSE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3212, 6 May 1911, Page 11
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