IN MEMORIAM.
BROTHER JAMES WAT t'AKJf, Ka. III!, K.C. ' Bv H.IT. He wrought hard mom and norm ; When night came on, ho labored at hia home. Or toiled abroad to henflit tosnkind : And those, the men who ST,"j:-g tha sledge. Who forced the bolt, W!ic. fitted plate on plate, Who turned the shaft, Who welded piece to piece, Or edge to edge ; Who ran the piolicn metal into moulds, To fashion works of labor for the man Of his own class -who?it hand unfolds From mother Earth, her golden wealth of corn, He waa a roftti, a Scottish ironside, Of iron \t ill, blunt manners, leading thought ; Equal in native courage and of pride, H.-.rd to be 'won, but rn-.ver to be bonght. lie gvngf.il mankind by actions ; Not by lip eloquence, the si/uare laid bp ; The lav!. of their troth he sought to ftnd, Thus to dirvh the worth of all re see, A ;d i;i the ;'(;sler. of justice weigh the mind. - r e i-.Ti a strike on t-hc anvil, strike ! Ring steel on steel, siftr ye.hour the sound : He was a m---n ! we look round for his Hk'\ Fur well \r.;. JjnrAv his like ie hardly found.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 710, 26 June 1878, Page 2
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200IN MEMORIAM. Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 710, 26 June 1878, Page 2
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