PLURIBUS UNUM.
By Warren Ariail. I have floated into life on the sea of death ; Multitudes have died that I may live. Millenniums of life have been busy Bringing me into existence; Countless men have borne The spark of life to me. Billions of breaths have been drawn That I may draw my breath. From the time that the morning stars sang Creation’s prelude, I have been A germ of life leaping forward From the deaths of men. And so from me in the future Men will spring into life and find the goals I strove to find, but failed and sighed in failing. And after I have lain a century. Forgotten in the finding of new things. A little dust in the giant arms of dust, , Some blood of mine will yet be warm, some heart Will echo my old care and happiness.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 68
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144PLURIBUS UNUM. Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 68
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