THEY SHALL TAKE AND HOLD.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 8

THEY SHALL TAKE AND HOLD.

There is want in the homes of the people, And the children axe crying for bread, AM the Church sweeps the sky with a steeple That o'ershadows the graves of our dead.

There's a wail in the wind at the dawning, There's a sound of a sob in the seaj There's an evil that shudders when morning Flings a mantle of gold o'er the lea.

There is hate betwixt toiler and toiler, There is malice and envy and strife; Labor lengthens'the rule of the Spoiler With the plunge of a fiat-ricide's knife.

But there's hope in the hearts of the Teachers, Their gospel rings clear in the night';. Revolution's brave army of Preachers, Who've learned Hist'ry's hard leesons aright.

And the wage-slaves are waking front slumber, Where the long lands are washed bj the seas, And each day-spring is swelling the number Who will fling their red flags to the breeze. •

JLnd the war-drama of Labor ars throbbing • Their loud call from the depths of tlie years, And they'll end the young children* ' wild sobbing £nd the sorrow of tears

sad mother , *;

They shall TAKE all the earth and itg treasure

They shall tear down the banners of 'Wrong, They shall HOLD all the wealth i$ full measure — • '\ They shall the world vi.tfi their song. / —H. E. Hollaiidj in "laternationel Socialist."