A Quiet Corner
SCIENCE REPROVES THE WORLD I gave you power, and you have made ■men weak; av J gave you engines, and you made them master; £ broke up earth and rock that you £ might seek The good of men, and you have ,V. t wrought disaster; I gave great harvest, and you hoard '' or burn it -While scores of millions cry to heaven for bread; I showed the way to plenty, and you s "" wr spurn it; How else you use me ask tho war-timo dead I 'steel I give may serve for sword ■>».. or share; Mv engines deal alike with good or ? ' r " 'ill; guns, your tenements, your rubbish, bear [%£■" The black sign-manual of perverted , will. The. instruments are mine; what have you dono men should fear the knowledge I have won ?" ■ —From " Sonnets of Life."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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138A Quiet Corner New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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