IS IT WELL?

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 16, 23 June 1911, Page 5

IS IT WELL?

Is it well that while we range with Science glorying in the time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime? There among the gloomy alleys, Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger cast our maidens by the thousands on the street; There the master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead ; There the mouldering fire of fever creeps across the rotted floor, And the crowded couch of incest, in the warrens of the poor. —Tennyson.