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NOBLE MEN. fITHE noblest men I know on earth »ly Are men whose hands are brown with toll; Who, back’d by no ancestral birth, Hew down the woods and till the soil; And thereby win a prouder fame. Than crown a king’s or warrior’s name. The working men, whate’er their task, To carve the stone, or bear the hod. They bear upon their honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God 1 And brighter are their drops of sweat Than diamonds in a coronet. God bless the noble working men, Who rear the cities of the plain: Who dig the mines and build the ships. Who drive the commerce of the main I God bless them! for their swarthy hands Have wrought the glory of all lands.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 384, 11 June 1866, Page 1
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130Select Poetry. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 384, 11 June 1866, Page 1
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