“THE MAN FOR THE TIME”
A POEM OF THE PAST FOR TO-DAY (To The Editor) Sir, —About a year ago you kindly published for me a poem from the pen of the Lancashire poet, Edwin Waugh. The present seems a very suitable time to publish another, which, in my opinion, is very apropos and with which I would like to couple the name of our Prime Minister, the Hon. M. J. Savage.—l am, etc., H. PICKUP. Stoke. “THE MAN FOR THE TIME.” He is a sterling nobleman Who lives the truth he knows; Who dreads the slavery of sin, And fears no other foes. Who scorns the folly of pretence; Whose mind from cant is free; Who values men for worth and sense, And hates hypocrisy. Who glows with love that’s free from taint; Whose heart is kind and brave; Who feels that he was neither meant For tyrant nor for slave. Who loves the ground, where’er he roam, That’s trod by human feet, And strives to make the world a home Where peace and justice meet.
Whose soul to clearer heights can climb, Above the show of things— Cleaving the mortal bounds of time On meditative wings.
Malice can never mar his fame; A heaven-crowned king is he; His robe, a pure Immortal aim; His throne, eternity.,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 8
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