"--_Disposal
Board "Surplus" Magazine_.
But why is the geographical position of this alluring archipelago not
given? Is it for enemy reasons?
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[Illustration: FORCE OF HABIT--THE SCRUM HALF.]
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THE NEED OF OUR TIMES.
["The modern world is badly in need of a Pindar. Alone of the poets,
Pindar could do justice to the exploits of the day."--_The Times._]
"We're badly in need of a Pindar"
To fan in these tropical days
Our stock of emotional tinder
With gusts of tempestuous praise;
To foster the flame, not to check it
Or let it die suddenly down,
In honour of HAWKER and BECKETT,
Of ALCOCK and BROWN.
We do not require a CATULLUS
(We've MASEFIELD and WAUGH and SASSOON)
Nor pastoral pipers to lull us
To rest with a sedative tune;
But the worship of beer and of Bacchus
In verses familiar and free
Might win for a latter-day FLACCUS
A Knighthood (B.
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