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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 6 (October 1, 1932.)

A Trill to “Thrill.”

A Trill to “Thrill.”

Taking it all in all, the element of surprise would predominate, and no man would know where he stood, any more than he does now. Let us trill a thrill to mystery, tortuous and twisty:

Give us mystery, give us thrill,
Let us take the patent pill
Of uncertainty—suspense,
With exciting consequence.
Let us live excitingly,
Never knowing where we'll be,
Why we're going, when or how,
What in fact the Fates allow.
Make the morrow fraught with chance,
And with secret circumstance.
At the present time we borrow
Just a little of to-morrow
From to-day, and guess a portion
Of the usurer's extortion.
But let's make our lives exciting,
By deliberately inciting
All the imps of imperception,
For our personal deception.
Let us mysticate our morrows,
Let us segregate our sorrows,
Let us wrap our future doings in a pall—
Trains and trousers, meals and houses,
Marriage vows and benzine bowsers,
Let us put a mist of mystery on them all.
Let us put a cloak of mystery,
Dark, oblique, obtuse and twistery,
On our little daily doings while we will,
Such as sweethearts wives and wages,
And so make successive pages
Of our Book o' Life provide a perfect thrill.