Poetry
Song Dedicated to Literary Gents
ONCE there was a traveller, a man of curious mind,
Sailed away across the world to find what he should find : Nightingales of China, old secrets of Japan And lights on the water even yet unseen by man.
A long time he wandered, filling fullhis pack With bright things for selling when at last he journeyed back: But his masters, his masters, who'd been by Bakerloo Said, oh no, oh no, that will never do.
Ah, once there was a traveller, a man of discontent,
Swore he'd crack the nut of truth and so away he went To scale snow-silvered mountains, to dive in green lagoons, A,zul gather various treasure for a score of magic moons": A long, way he wandered, a many tales heard For telling in .the market-place, a farthing a word :
H. M.
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