Back to the Land.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 November 1914, Page 8

Back to the Land.

■* There are too many "dreamers and thinkers," And not enough fillers of the soil; There are too many eaters and drinkers Who use up the products of toil; There are too many boosters and boomers, With manners too easy" and bland ; We're cursed with too many consumers. We ought to go back to the land. There are too many getters and takers, And not enough men who rjroduce ; There are too many broad rolling acres Untouched and untilled—out of use; We stick where the grime and the grit is, And the streets with the poor are a-swann; We're crowded too much in the cities, We ought to go back to the farm. We've got to be workers and ploughers, Who sweat in the fields like true men ; We've got to make use of our powers To make the land blossom "again. What, me ? On a farm ? And to stay there ? V\<-l 1, not for a. bundle of pelf ! I was trying to show you the way there, •r.ut 111 stick to the city myself-.