Poem: Bond or Free? by Ruth M. Bedford

Let others, if they will, rehearse
The easy freedom of "free" verse;
I gladly serve in my brief time
The lovely tyranny of rhyme.

Let those who scorn restriction find
A formless country to their mind:
I still observe in numble awe
The sculptured limits of the law.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 1933