"OUT HITTING HITLER"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 50, 23 February 1943, Page 2

"OUT HITTING HITLER"

Immense stores of essential food Are exploited for a rise While Hitler's: enslaved Europe Slowly starves and diesi Within the shrines of high finance The Priesthood of the God of Greed Keep sacrificial fires alight Oblivious of starving souls to> feed Like the Levites in the days of old Who forsook Jehovah to worship gold Tnto their ancient temple came A Nazarene in a manger born Who drove the thieving merchants forth. WiiUi knotted cords and withering SJO'l'll. For which he was unjustly tried Scourged, crowned with thorns and ..crucified. The bonds; of death could not retain, The Lord of Life, He rose: again To lead an army free, and strong Increasing as it marched on. To fight and finally overthrow Humanity's most persistent, foe Pure thoughts, kind words, unselfish deeds Are weapons that this l army needsi/ Epitaphs on monumental stone l , And huge bequests, will ne'er atone For lives spent in pursuit of wealth For the glorification of the God of self. Who with satanical defalcation Sells preferential shares in his own damnation And front seaJls in the pit of eternal woe Where the roasting fires of memory glow While conscience keeps moaning—l told you so. -- H. SERGANT.