"STILL UNHEARD."
PEACE ON -EARTH. GOODWILL TO MEN. (By Faa McMaster.) flow many days must still repeat, O Christ, the mandate of goodwill And peace to men, those gifts rqilele With every joy their lives to fill Be barred from lodgmen in their hearts, hearts, While death still speeds his venomed dans';
flow stow the message of your life Dawns on the soul of man: How long his mind, so prone to strife. Its healing m-ivies 'nan: Whilst love stands waiting entrance where It could earth's sweetest blossoms bear.
Renew the lic-sauo once again. And echo ii in every clime Where blood, is shed.' and its refrain Replace the hate and stay the crime WhLh ignorance so long hath bred. And peace and wisdom rule instead.
May we the truth no longer scorn. For il you lived, for it you died, That in our hearts it might lie born
You sull'ered. yet defied The hate of those who would subdue Us glorious gospel given you,
'■Peace and goodwill," how sweet the sound The message bears, the thoughtful soul Vo whom sea, earth, and sky' abound With signs that urge them to its "oal! O that we all mis-lit equal see And hasten that "humanity:
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 2
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