WHAT I LIVE FOR.
I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true ; For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For all human ties that bind me ; For the task by God assigned me ; For the bright hopes left behind me, And the good that I can do. I live to learn their story, • Who've suffered for my sake ; To emulate their glory. And follow in their wake ; Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, The nobles of all ages, Whose deeds crown History's pases, And Time's great volume make. I live to hold communion With all that is divine ; To feel there is a onion 'Twixt Nature's heart and mine ; To profit by affliction, Reap truth from fields of fiction, And fulfil each grand design. I live to hail that season, By gifted minds foretold, When men shall live by reason, And not alone by gold ; When man to man united, And every wrong thing righted, The whole world shall be lighted As Eden was of old, I live for those who love me — For those who know me true * For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 258, 9 January 1873, Page 8
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224WHAT I LIVE FOR. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 258, 9 January 1873, Page 8
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