A GRIND OLD POEM.
tflbp fth&il judge » ftiari from manners ? - .Who shall know tim; by^his dreft ? V- " ~ " Panjlei* may be fit for princes, . " Princes fit for something less ; Oruniple4 shirt and dirty jacket May beclothe the golden ore Of the -deepest thought and feeling — Satin vests could do no more. There.are, springs of crystal nectar l2yei\ welling out of stone ; There are purple buds and golden . Hidden, crushed, and overgrown ; Go 3, who counts by. -aouls.jnotrdresses, LovesSnd prospers yon "and me, WWle^le values thrones the highest Bat as pebbles in the sea. Man, 1 upraised above his fellows, • Oft forgets bis fellows then ; Masters, rulers, lords, remember , That; your meanest Muds are men ; Men by honour, men by, feeling, . Men by thought, and men by fame ; Claiming equal rights to sunshine In a man s ennobling name. There arc-foam embroidered oceans, , : ,., There are.little Weed-clad' rills ; There are feeble inch-high saplings, , , *yhere,are cedara on the hills ; ' God, who counta by souls, not stations, ° Loves and wo^pers jou and me. For to hinVall fariie'd 'distinctions Are as pebbles in the "sea. ' ' Toiling' hands alone are builders Of a nation's wealth or fame . i Titled-laziness is pensioned.
'. I Fed and fattened on the same ; By tha sweat of others' foreheads Living only to rejoice, , . . tße poof man's outraged freedom Vainly lifteth up its. voice. Truth and justice are eternal, Born with loneliness in light ; Secret wrongs shall never prosper • While lb!eie is a sunny right : . God, whose world-head voice is singing
BouiTi3less love to you and me, Sinks oppression, with his titles. As the pebbles in the sea.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 7
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265A GRIND OLD POEM. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 7
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