A DEED AND A WORD.
A little spring had lost it* way Amid the grass and fern; A pissing stronger scooped a well Where weary men might turn. He walled it in, and hung with car* A ladle at the brinkHe thought not of the deed be did. But, judged that toil might drink. He pasted again, and", lo! the well, By summer never dried, - Has cooled ten thousand parching tongue*. And saved a life besides. A nameless man amid a crowd That -thronged th? daily mai< Let fall a word of hope and love, Unstudied* from the heart; A whisper on the tumult thrown, A transitory breath — It raised & brother from tihe dost, It Bayed «• soul from death. O germ! O fount! O word of Jovef - O -thought at random caat! Ye were bat little at the first, But mighty, a-t the last. / — Sxuatocz.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 68
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145A DEED AND A WORD. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 68
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