THE MODERN TREND
Old as the hills is the modern trend, Toward an inevitable end, The same way travelled pagan Rome: 7 « Wanton extravagance at home, Love for pleasure and display, Gambling, lust for sordid gain, Delighted with the blood and pain, In the amphitheatre day and night, Where man and beast to death did fight; Gross and corrupted to the core, Squandering the hard earned wealth of yore, Exchanging gold for worthless dross, Oblivious to the fatal loss, Until the end came swift and sure, That Rome was too weak to endure, And the Roman Empire was no more, Than a warning to Empires to come; The retrogation in the home, Of families or nations is the same, Sure way to irrevocable loss and shame, For he who slumbers not nor sleeps, His on men and Nations keeps, And wisely applies the' chastening rod, On all who willingly forsake their God. . ' . H. SERGANT.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 74, 1 September 1947, Page 3
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154THE MODERN TREND Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 74, 1 September 1947, Page 3
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