THE BLIND EYE
! ; 'Mr. Massey has no vision."—FresA j report. ! • •. ! Unable to picture a -wide sweet world, |. J ; '.reo ivmri the .strife- of 'meß, j 111 hid io the S-oasT we bear on ihe road. I- The mar-y : *asiist. travel; till then, j !"*•"£'h uevei' a _ 1-tcljpiiigr ■ tojiii! 'held cut,.. T.:> the. wayside waif o¥ woe, No light that leads to a heart (that Ijleeds, ...... As the workers' burdens grow. Blind with a bitterness born of fear, That the shield of force may bend, When children grow with (the truth ami know ; "Whom iwelr fathers fought to fend. j llh'nd to tii'e sight as occasion serves,To grovel with moneyed .greed, ~ " I Whiie the §j>sirt of blood from a i baton's thud, I Is the all i>f a sightless creed, .V j Keen in *.he -vision when wealth de- | "suan'iH., i Awake lo the cry for-move, ■ i From those with h share already nni fair, ... | I Of a bountiful store. Away with the rule of this visionless school. Away with this sightless crew, There's n goal within sight, pigrV your ! hesii-ts in the fight, i And give to. the toiler his due.
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Bibliographic details
Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 15
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191
THE BLIND EYE
Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 15