A CHOSEN SHEPHERD.
(To tlie Editor.) Sir, —rYour correspondent, R. Johnson, in Thursday’s “Standard,” credits Richard John Seddon with being “the man who put the farmer on his feet.” The present writer still holds that statesman in affectionate remembrance, but considers that the farmer really had Sir John McKenzie to thank benefits received —and since forgotten. One verse, and part of another, from Jessie Mackay s sight-dimming poem, “The Burial of Sir John McKenzie,” bears this opinion out — The clan went on with the pipes before v All the way, all the way; A wider clan than ever lie knew Followed him home that dowie day. And who were they of the wider clan? The' landless man and the no man’s man, The man that lacked and the man unlearned, The man that lived but as he earned; And the clan went mourning all the way. , < He left her a land of many homes— The pearl of the world, where the seawind roams; J, And New Zealand went mourning all the, way ! " ■ —I am, etc., MEMORIA.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 10
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176A CHOSEN SHEPHERD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 10
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