The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

Name: The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
Author: C. J. Dennis

by C. J. Dennis

Pages: about 53
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 58 min at 250 wpm

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From the opening

La vie est vaine: Un peu d'amour, Un peu de haine... Et puis--bonjour!
La vie est breve: Un peu d'espoir, Un peu de reve... Et puis--bonsoir!
My young friend Dennis has honoured me with a request to write a preface to his book. I think a man can best write a preface to his own book, provided he knows it is good. Also if he knows it is bad.
"The Sentimental Bloke", while running through the Bulletin, brightened up many dark days for me. He is more perfect than any alleged "larrikin" or Bottle-O character I have ever attempted to sketch, not even excepting my own beloved Benno. Take the first poem for instance, where the Sentimental Bloke gets the hump. How many men, in how many different parts of the world--and of how many different languages--have had the same feeling--the longing for something better--to be something better?
The exquisite humour of The Sentimental Bloke speaks for itself; but there's a danger that its brilliance may obscure the rest, especially for minds, of all stations, that, apart from sport and racing, are totally devoted to boiling
Doreen stands for all good women, whether down in the smothering alleys or up in the frozen heights. And so, having introduced the little woman (they all seem "little" women), I "dips me lid"-- and stand aside.
V. THE PLAY "Wot's in a name?" she sez... An' then she sighs,...
VI. THE STROR 'AT COOT Ar, wimmin! Wot a blinded fool I've been!...
VII. THE SIREN She sung a song, an' I sat silent there....
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul; An' all them joys o' life I 'eld so sweet Is up the pole. Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got The pip wiv yearnin' fer--I dunno wot.

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