NOT GERMANY.
Who first put steam to ship and car And conquered space on land and sea ? Who cabled thought through oceans i far? ~ | Not Germany. Who first trapped microbes under , glass, j Man's ambushed, deadliest enemy. ; And bade foul plagues forever pass? ’ Not Germany. j Who from Daguerre his fame can steal? j Who finished for the world to see “La bicyclette,” “l’autoniobile" ? Not Germany. Who set the wheel where woman spun To million-fokl machinery? And what proud land born Edison? Not Germany. Who laid on pain deep .sleep and dark To still life’s utmost agony? Who flashed world-o’or the wireless spark? Not Germany. Who first like eagle rode the air. Columbus of that vaster sea ? I Who first to earth’s twin poles did fare? Not Germany. But higher yet! what lands display Darwin’s supreme discovery. The Curies, Lyell, Faraday? Not Germany. , ; Who broke tlr’ hereditary throne 1 Of-kings, and set great people free? What land to-day is freedom’s'own ? ! Not Germany. ' Go, Teuton boaster! Humbly scan What gifts thy peers have heaped on thee. Art’s triumphs were achieved by Man ! Not Germany. —THEODORE C. WILLIAMS.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3985, 19 July 1915, Page 3
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186NOT GERMANY. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3985, 19 July 1915, Page 3
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