CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 72, 26 July 1912, Page 4

CAUSE AND EFFECT.

The powder lay in heaps—a threat Of de"ath—where powder should not He; Some fool threw down a cigarette— And flaming ruin rent the sky. Whereat a solemn jury met And laid the blame in wisdom rare On him that threw the cigarette, Not them that left the pow- ' der there. Upon the heaps of Want and , Shame, Whereon men build, one evil ' day , Some fool will fling a word of flame — And what will follow who < shall say? But should all earth be overset, We'll lay the blame in dull ' despair, , On him that threw the cigar- % ette, f Not them that put the pow- \ der there. \