FORWARD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 9

FORWARD.

"A thousand creeds and battle-cries, A thousand warring social schemes. A thousand new moralities. And twenty thousand thousand dreams; ''Each on his own anarchio way From tho old order breaking fro©,— Our ruined world desire," you say, “License, once more, not Liberty." But ah. beneath the wind-whipt foam When storm and change ore on th© deep. How quietly the tides com© home, And how tho depths of sea-shine sloop; And we that march towards a goal. Destroying, only to fulfil The law, tho law of that great soul "Which moves beneath your alien will# We that like foeznen meet the past Because we bring the future, know Wo only fight to achieve at last A great ro-union with our foe; Re*-union in tho truths that stand When all our wars aro rolled away, 80-union of the heart and hand And of the prayers wherewith wo pray; Ro-nnion in tho common needs. The common strivings of mankind; Rc-union of our warring creeds In tho one dwells behind. Then—in that day—we shall not meet Wrong with new wrong, but right with right; Our faith shall make your faith complete When our battalions rounite. Forward!—what use in idle words?— Forward, O warriors of tho soul! ■Ehero will bo breaking up of swords When that new morning makes ns wh 010. —Alfred Noyes in ‘‘Westminster Gazette,”