LEARN FROM EGYPT
FOUR THOUSAND YEARS OLD A Bathurst farmer in New South Wales, who secured from Egypt a supply of wheat which had been buried with mummies 4000 years ago. succeeded in raising a successful crop of seven-eared wheat, which grew to an exceptional height. And did ye dare in New South Wales To eat the millings of the corn That was threshed out by Egypt’s flails Four thousand years ere ye were born? Oh, did ye dare to sow the dead Egyptians’ grain to make your bread? And when that forty-hundred-years'-Old grain revived its dormant heat, And every seed showed seven ears Beyond the height of common wheat, Oh, did ye, did ye dare to mill What Ancient Egypt bade lie still? Who knows what hungry spirit goes Crying to heaven of this crime That robbed it of its needs-^—who knows? What are four thousand years in time? Ah, heaven may not find it good That Science thieved the dead man’s food. TOMFOOL.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 19, 13 April 1927, Page 11
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165LEARN FROM EGYPT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 19, 13 April 1927, Page 11
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