Have shook Gov.-General’s hands and Ministers have met.
And yet with all my knowing it grieves me much to say
That as yet I’ve not discovered how to get a raise in pay.
I have a ready flow of words, which passes for profundity,
But really a few scattered wits, are all that fills, my head’s rotundity.
The dead level is the devil.
You need great ballast in your mind to spread a vast canvas of vanity to the wind.