The Reserved Section

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 1, 3 January 1923, Page 7

The Reserved Section

\y>y AViLBUR n. XESBIT (U.S. Poet; i (At the t'me of the great, anthracite \ coal strike of 1902, George F. Baer, ; Ivead of the coal trust, w>.s -quoted as I declaring: J'The rights taul inlerests J oi' the iabcu.-ing man will be proj Ice led and cared for, not by labour \ixnd agitation, but by the Christian J meni, to Whom God in his infin't-e wis- ! (lorn h.s given control of Lhe property ! interests of .this country.") lln the prehistor'e ages, when the I world was a, hall of mist--A per thing swirl of something unknown in the i When tho. car'ch v/as vague with vapj our, v.nd formless aiid dirk J ana , void - jTho sport of the w.°yward comet -\he jib-c of the asteroid — Tlhen the singing stars of morning •chanted xoft: "Ksep out ■of ■:hcre! Kc-op off that ppot wlvth ■is sizxKng lijpt—it. is lnuk'ng coal ior ; IJaer!" jWi'.cn the picrodac;yl ambled', or fiut-. I lered, or swain, or jumped, j And the.'., rami: led. all: enrolls of what he bumped, | And the other old l-imo monsters ihar ' • thrived on the land and «ea % - \ And did not know wliat. their names ; . „ woie, any more ihau to-diiy- do ! w;e— Wherever they. wont they heard it: ; '"Vo'-tu fellows Ueev) out of, there —■ " .' ■ j r riiat place*, shakes ami {juivt'i , !--. :md . fiwakc.s--■■■;•£ is making coal Tor Baer." '■'.•; The carhcniiYrous. ci" , :- , . consumed but' a m ll'on years; (t. siar.ed wlioii. earth w.-.-.s .shedding. -the last wf her..T)aby tears. ;,. When slill y'ho was swaddled.sdffcjy'in. clumsily tied on clouds. When st/,r.-5 from tho shop nature v.ere being turned'- out -in! crowds; .. *' . ":'. j But hijgh o'er the favoured sectjon j ■ thig sign said to all: Stay l>ack of, the ropes that surround these slopes—they are making ■•■ «nal. for. Ba«r!" __.-.'