“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…”

—  Arnold Wall

Poem: "The Wit" In: A.E. Currie. New Zealand Verse, (1906), p. 198

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university professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botan… 1869–1966

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