Works in the Bulletin 1915
"VENI VIDI VICI."

Vernon - At 14 Cavenish-street, Geelong, the wife of Hugh Vernon (late Chief Scout, Field Intelligence Department, South Africa) a daughter ("Veni Vidi Vici" Vernon). Another little Briton! Now then, boys, enlist, and keep her so. - ARGUS.

Veni!  Little care you now
   How your elders name you;
But, if later on you vow
   Vengeance, who shall blame you?
You have come, a tiny mite,
   Chubby soft and creasy,
Wondering into the light -
   Veni Vidi Vici.

Vici! Little have you seen, Thus far of men's doing. For you, back of Fate's dark screen. What has Fortune brewing? Should you grow to capture fame With a form Medici, Then, how will you ike your name, Veni Vidi Vici?
Veni Vidi Vici, child, When we're down and under (Little matter how you're styled; We are prone to blunder), May your sons, whose clearer sight Shall see more than we see, Put their father's blunders right, Veni Vidi Vici!

"Den"
The Bulletin, 5 August 1915, p14

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