Finale.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 5

Finale.

Juioh hand did grasp n brothers naked throat. And women 'ierl withnesflingsat their breast Ifcvenu r e nmer onl its lic'i^h baltle note, Through c\er.\ nation of the trembling west lho crush m ■ thunders busii'd the boom of guns, - Through blacken'd valleys, lightning lit the dny, And nations smonldev'd 'noatb eclipse of suns • l<or demons rul'd, and hell dlone bore .sway ! And in {.be midnight, of the wretched fray. A \\liirl\viiid-bia t-tott -tot Hca\ en's anger swept Remaining life of man : The dawn of day Lnok'd only on the slain. a"d sadl.\ -\\ept; For there the nations mut kited laj ' Jioncdth hufire eiH'inc-> of man's vauntc dpow'"And broken spoar- were emblems of • em\ , With festering kings, the puppetc ot an hour ! Then on Ihe morrow rain'd fierce bolls from hoav'n. The (lame of Ciod flash'd o'er the reekini? earth ; And the hot elaro of meteors madly driven Hut" revcll'd in their pratasy of mirth, Min^Hnfir their horror* with the whirlwind's blast : And mighty earthquakes rent the troubled earth. Shaking the foundations of the wretched past, Till God shall mould it into a second birth. Then ramp a deluppnnd snbtner^d the land, Washing ihe b'oodstains th>it polluted ii ; For One in nns:< r bared His strong, naht hand. And hurl'd the despots as vile things unfit lo wait the ad rent of their second birth, < 'r sepulchre beneath the daisied snd ; And the pale stars wept o'er the poor, dead earth As it was driven from the face of God ! W. R. Wills. Otahuhu, New Zealand.