UPWARDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 223, 3 November 1916, Page 7 (Supplement)

UPWARDS.

(The following verses were written by the late Wing-Commander Nevilles LsbornOj who was one of the greatest British authorities on aircraft. The 'Daily Mail reproduces them by kind permission of irs tather. 1 wain to -ing you the song of men, Who live, and struggle, and die; Each one aflame with the living fire, .Striving to plant just a little Irgher The teet of Posterity. Higher! To Power! To Greatness <i .ioiil ! To Beauty, and Wisdom, and Light; What though the path may be ston/ and cold, What though 1 gam but a foot ere I'm old! The object is worthy the fight! What though the millions are hardly aware- ()£ the goal they are trying to reach; Though they wander about bv the s:d> of the way, And daily with Iwauty, and pleasure, ami play : lVt ii- goad them, and help them, anf tench ! Thank Cxi for the man with a soul liko stream. A tongue like the sound of the wind; intomhed by ingratitude, mocking, or jest. Fierce tender, and optimist, true under test. As he sweats in the Van of Mankind.