A WOMAN'S TRIBUTE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 292, 13 July 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

A WOMAN'S TRIBUTE.

(A woman, evidently in very humble circumstances, handed in at the Temperance Institute. Greenock, a packet of tea for the use of the wounded soldiers, visiting the tearoom there. She would noi give her name.)

She was poor, but she pave the best she had. The action was passing line.For a cup of tea makes faint heart glad As surely as sparkling wine! I The cup of cold water, in Christ's sweet name. Brings benison from Above. ( dare sav the angels thought .the same Cf that woman's gi:'t of love. Hurband or brother, or dearer had she— The thoughf bedims our eyes—"Somewhere," with his cross home steadfastly To the hill of sacrifice? Odour of spikenard, two trivial mites. And a quarter-pound of tea— The angel who notes such things delights In rcsist'rinr; all the three. For each was a signul «-arri!!<•<% With never a thing to :uld: The farthing, the tea, the costly spice, Were all that these women had' -Grccnotl;. J'lß-