THE CHILDREN OF BROKEN HILL

Grey River Argus, 22 November 1920, Page 4

THE CHILDREN OF BROKEN HILL

» THE CHILDREN OF BROKEN HELL The news is bad from Broken Hill. Pot Hi ere the children sweet Must go to bed with tea-wet eyes Thro' lack of food to eat. To dream, maybe, of new-laid eggs And honoy from tho comb, Or lie awake to wonder why Bare shelves stand in tho home. The news is bad (the birds might well Refuse their songs to sing' — The very stomes. cry out in wrath Against the evil thing) — That in this land of wondrous wealth .Mollie and^Tim and Will Must suffer hideous hunger 'pangs To-day at Broken Hill. ' i Tho seasons come and go, the fields^ Bring forth the golden grain; The trees give up their luscious fruit, Kino 'feed upon the. plain; A;nd still we wonder, question oft, "How long, oh' Lord, how long" Shall Thy good gifts to man be weighed In balances poised wrong? Tho child is dear to Christ, and so To us it should be dear; How can we listen to its erics, And watch the falling tear, Oh! woman rise, and let your days Around the child revolve, And in its service, soon or late, Grave problems you "will solve. Ye rich, for once be wise* and send Your silver and your gold — Spread tables, fill tho empty plate. Thus cam a joy untold. For plain and straight, the road whereon (You'll travel 'ncatli blue skies) You now may walk, as angels kind. Before the children's eyos.