"While the dull talk idly streams, He sits upon the bank and dreams, Till some careless word that's said Finds a fellow in his head..."
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Poem: "The Wit" In: A.E. Currie. New Zealand Verse, (1906), p. 198
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Arnold Wall
Arnold Wall (15 November 1869 – 29 March 1966) was a New Zealand university professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botanist, writer and radio broadcaster.
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