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Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 295, 25 October 1922, Page 3

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.- "■ ' "•••» *■.>*-»' ■ ■ . A„Brother, til© dawn you sought died ere it had begun; Brother, we struggle still beneath a blackened sun.. ..- The blase you led to melt the gloom ..way .-;/:,-.; -. ■ Burnt only your own cl,a,y* And through the breach of broken youth ' '"' Marched monstrous greed and crowned untruth, And freedom slirarik and honour (stank la this the Day. Brother, you thought to reach a ts'gli hid noon; ... Brother, you strove a world's life aM too sooa. The stars they set to ligh,t you in your treadWere but dull, glints of lead. To numb tho hearts and. weight the soul: ; For your desire was not the goat, But sunken yields in nether fields— And crops of dead. Brother, they dunned you of your littie hour; Brother, and diced, it for a golden BlioweiS.. , . .. ; To tlx_-m your shining soul and heart "a high Wero only cheap green feed For their fat beast .of fortune, Mars .... , And so they sent you higher, than the stay3 t Where you {ai'€f;free. and yet may see Your brothers.freed.. -—P.J.S.. in llie Victoria Uhiv.rsity College Review, "The SiJ-ke," ■ September, 1921. '_' j