CONSCIENCE.
A conscience is a funny tiling, You don't know it's along, Until the times you start to do Something you know is wrong. And then it hammers at your 'breist With all its might and main, And gives you not a minute's rest Until you're right again. For weeks and weeks you travel on And never know it's there, It doesn't interfere with you So long aa you are fair; But when you start some shady trick That later you'll he meing, Your conscience then is very quick To ask you what you're doing. You cannot fool your conscience much, It's always on to you, It knows exactly all the time The things you want to do. It's just as still aa It can be When you are going right, But when you stoop to trickery It's then it starts a fight.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1915, Page 11
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143CONSCIENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1915, Page 11
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