THE PORTENTOUS CLOUDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10309, 9 August 1911, Page 4

THE PORTENTOUS CLOUDS.

At the present moment, when the clouds of war ihawg ominously over the Nation, the 'words of 'George Borroff) the famous (author, may isarv© as iau wpiratian:— "0, Eaigtand; loaig .may it be or© the isun of thy glory sink beneath the waves of darkness! Tihough gloomy and portentous clouds are now gathering rapidly .around thee, still may it please the Almighty to disperse thean, and to grant thee a futurity longer in duration and iSftiU brighter in renown than thy past! Or if thy doom beat hard, may that doom be a unable on©, and worthy of her who llias been i&tyled 'The Lord Quaem of the Water'! May thou stink, if Itihoni dost sink, amidst blood and flame, causing more .than one nation, to participate in' thy downfall! Of all (Bailees,' ma yit please the Lord to preserve rtibee ifrom a disgraceful and islow decay; 'becoming ere extinct a ■scorn and m, -mockery for those isoifsamo foes who now, (though tliey envy and. .abhor tihee, • .sti'll fear thee; may,. even against their will, (honour and' respect thee! Arouse thee, whilst ■there f,s yet time, and prepare thee for 'the eomlbat of life and death! Oaist from the© the foul isourf "which now encrusts thy (robust limbs, which deadens' / their force maid makes them heavy and. powenliess! Oast from thee the false philasopbaris who would fain decry what, next to tlie love of ■God, has ihitherto been doomed most •sdored, itlie love of the Mother Land! Caist from thee thy fadse patriots, who ainclea* the pretence of .redressing the wrongs) of the poor and weak, seek to promote dnternal discord, so that rtihou mayest only ibecome .terrible .to thyself! And remove from, thee the false prophets who lhave seem v.a«iity and divined lies; who shave daubed thy wall with untempered mortal-, that it may fall ? wlio have strengthened the liande of the wicked, and made the 'hearts of the .righteous sad. O, do this, and fear not the result, for .either thy end be a majestic and an inevitable one, or God shall perpetuate thy reigm upon the water, thou old Queen!"