Omar Awakes
p. 55 · Read in the full issue
From the Sydney “Sun” column,
“Sunny Side Up”
That worldly hope, Geneva’s League is gone, Turned ashes—now they form another one.
We do not like the Russian’s hairy face — Perchance there’s refuge UNO’s lap upon?
They say the Lion and the Eagle boil With fervor for a world of peaceful toil; ’Twere wrong the Bear should sit upon our chest, And get his claws upon our wells of oil!
If UNO is a force the world to mend, Before too late may its big stick descend, l est in the dust and under dust we lie Sans wine, sans song, sans petrol and sans friend.
Alike to those who for to-day prepare £nd those who after sweet to-morrow stare, A Muezzin from a tower in Persia yells: “For Pete’s sake, save us from this blasted Bear!”