After the Congress.
Scattered to East r.nd West and North, Some with the faint heart, some the stout, Each to the battle of life went forth, And all alone we must tight it out. We had been gathered from cot and grange, From the moorland farm and the terraced street, brought together by chances strange, And knit together by friendship sweet. Not in the sunshine, not in the rain, Not in the night of the stars untold, Shall we ever all so meet again, Or be as we were in the days of old ? Hut as ships cross, and more cheerily go, Having changed tidings upon the sea, So I am richer by them, 1 know. Am they are not poorer, 1 trust, by me. —W. C. Smith.
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White Ribbon, Volume 8, Issue 96, 1 May 1903, Page 10
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128After the Congress. White Ribbon, Volume 8, Issue 96, 1 May 1903, Page 10
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