SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS.
<f O Mother, see the mill lights in the darkness glow!" “I see but candles for my dead At foot and head.” “Nay, see how wrought by childish hands world-fabrics grow i" , “X ge©- my babes, decrepit, bowed They weave a shroud/' “Yet ses their golden wage: the purse of wealth is deep." “The tide or barter at its flood Gives for blood!" “O Mother, with thy visions dark, dost thou not weep?" “For slaughtered babes upon such biers There are no tears." —ROSE TRUMBULL. “Independent.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 3
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90SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 3
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