"THIS IS OUR CAUSE."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 137, 16 July 1914, Page 10

"THIS IS OUR CAUSE."

MR RUDYARD KEPUITG'S NEW ULSTER POEM. In the first issue of the '' Covenanter, '' the organ of the League of British Covenanters, the following poem by Mr Rudyard Kipling was published:— THE COVENANT. We thought we ranked above the chance of ill. Others might fail, not we, for we were wise Merchants in freedom. So of our freewill We let our servants drug our strength with lies. The pleasure and the poison had its way j On us as on the meanest, till we learned That he who lies will steal, who steals will slay. j Neither, God's judgment nor man's heart was turned. Yet there remains His mercy—to be . sought. Through wrath and peril while we cleanse the wrong By that last right which our forefathers claimed When their Law failed them and its stewards were bought. This is our cause. God help us, and make stvong Our wills to meet Him later, unashamed. RUDYARD KIPLING.