SONG OF SEPARATION
Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 450, 22 October 1919, Page 7
SONG OF SEPARATION
"Song of Reparation" by Chaplin, a member of thp prison borly, is inspired >>y an instinct stronger ti'an the love oi , lii'-e, viviiied and iEad e vibrant by the mo' 4 terrible tragedy tliab can bein M a nuiii within the wall?;. The author dijipod his jx-n into , liis o-wni life blood. Ho jualiPs vocal iho most «atTPtl peureU t »f th e lnimau B> gives artistic expression to that tender sympathy of the human soul that niiikcv "t-be whole world kin." Think of sppai-aticn 'from "mother and boy" lor twenty years! Two that I lovo must - livo alone, Fay« away. All in the world 1 can call ray own, Only tluv. Mother al-d boy in the Tccking chair. Thinking f.i out- woo cannot be tiw?re, Breathing a. hop>e that is half a prayer; Night and day, night and day. Here in my cr>U I. must- sit alone, Qothed in gray. Bars of iron and walls of stone Bid m« sts«v,, What of the world with its pomp and show ? Baubles of nothing! This I know: J)«?j> in my heart I miss them SO iVighb ami day, night and day. —Leaven worth New Era.