[We’ve Respect for the Weak and the “Widdered”] [poem, 23 January 1921]

[Editor: A poem included in “Dryblower” Murphy’s “Verse and Worse” column. Published in The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), 23 January 1921.]

[We’ve Respect for the Weak and the “Widdered”]

The Melbourne Trades Hall officials last Thursday considered that the “stewards’ strike was drawing to a close.”

We’ve respect for the weak and the “widdered,”
And the punsters who coffined repose,
But, dash it! Can drawers be considered
As clothes?

Source:
The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), 23 January 1921, p. 8

Editor’s notes:
who coffined repose = a reference to those who are buried (at rest, lying down in a coffin)

widdered = (vernacular) widowed