The Pioneer Passes
Within a.hundred years of New Zealand || history has the home of the pioneer been changed from untilled bareness to garden and green trees, been beautified by sorrow, joy, ana toil. Simple or gentle such a home has been a nucleus of culture and continuity, a centre radiating the ancient virtues of hardihood and simplicity. The pioneer himself, stubborn to endure, strong to subdue, heroic to defy, has passed away. The ‘day has come to him, as come it must to. all, when time has sapped the sinews of youth and bowed the strength that Could not tire. Over the home paddock to the House of God near by has the slow procession of his funeral moved. Along the pilgrim’s path that every man must pass has he been borne. The verdict of the world on work and worth, what left undone, what done, has been pronounced. " His bones are dust, his tools are rust, his soul ts with the saints we trust.’--(H. Guthrie-Smith in "The Changing Land.’’)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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170The Pioneer Passes New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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