IF WE DO OUR DUTY.
Lo! plenty ripens round us, yet'awaked. the cry for bread. And the millions still: arc toiling, crushed and clad in rags, unfed! While sunny hills and valleys ...richly, : blush -with -f.ru.it. and, grain, ... ~•;.,', Still the paupers iv the palace rob theirt toiling fellow men. This' world is full of beauty, as other Avorlds above, And if aa'c did our duty it might be! full of love.
Dear God! what hosts are trampled . 'mid this killing crush-for gold! What noble hearts are sapp'd of love,, Avhat spirits lose life's hold! Yet a merry world it might be, opulent! for all and aye . """"" With its lands that ask for labor, and! its Avealth that wastes aAvay. This Av'orld is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if. Aye did our duty it might b0 full of love. —Gerald Massey.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 11
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143IF WE DO OUR DUTY. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 11
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