OF FIRE AND FLESH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 17 August 1912, Page 6

OF FIRE AND FLESH.

Of fire and fteah a man is made— The flesh that moulds earth's highest race, And through strong sons lias strongly swayed Her lesser beasts to yield him grace: Of fire, the same that smouldered slow In magi of the ages dim And now flames up to meet the test Of times that search the soul, of him.

The air lias chanted right of way That his high voice may sound afar; Wie rocks have parted that his eyes May learn how rich their treasures are; ;

His_ cities. buiW-pd to tKe sun, Sing from within their ribs of steel Vhe sons of thousands, whose tense hearts The throbbing pulse of progress> feel.

Gf fire and flesh—and they are strontr. Our brothers of this saner day, With, grand- row strength that bids not. "Strifc-M" But rather, "Hold the stroke away Prom nil the weak, who strive and fall From .all the strong, who, failing, ' strive: : ¥oti shall not cast the flesh to earth, But rather* keep the fire alive." Of flesh, and fire—both. God and beast Deep mnted in our battled lives;, And wlio can tell how long, how long Ere boast is sped, ere God arrives? Our utmost thought can only gueas' That ou+. of nne the other e;rows — Thf ff^-fj]} that s'umbers h\ the bud Shall ir-'-o flam-3 blo-som'in the roso!