CASSANDRA.
Hath the world really donned its shroud I Are all Our progress, science, commerce but a lie Tinselled to hide the spectral poverty Which waitcth, ghoul-like, for the funcra Of that which is lurking linear the pall? On nil sides sin, like moanings of the storm, Voices of deep complaint ; dark biota deform Our Taunted systems. Faith's equirocal Gold barter'd, science hamper d, choke our •ways. Wealth sitteth cheek by jowl with beggary, Whilst myriads lire all hopeless but to die. Truly, tho vision of those latter days May make us pause— what cometh who may tell ? The dawn of better things, or else their knell. E. H. Gulliver.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 5
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110CASSANDRA. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 5
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