LINES ON LABOUR.
Winter will not last for ever! Is the groun3
for harvest tilled? Enow we not that garners never were by sluggard resting filled. ! ; - ■ Is oiu God in splendour' sleeping O'er a miser-hoarded gain? If He is then to the keeping Of our dust let's haste again! Nay, the very thought is treason In a universe so keen Tcvthe guiding touch of reason — Eestless in its task supreme. Is there not another guerdon Save the liaurel won by Bruce? Hath not Freedom still a burden ? Hath not Justice one abuse ? "When the Beth'lenTstar.was shiningEager shepherds left the fold To," enawaddled in a manger r Christ, the saving one, behold! Did that Star of Freedom vanish In the gloom of Jewish night? Did His cry, " "Tis finished, ' banish All the Labour of the fight ? True, for Christ the task was finishtl-. His to lay the goodly planStill the work is undiminished— Still the Labourer is man. . Work! all hateful sleep forsaking—* Golden grain lies on the sod — Seeds of nobler life awaiting But the harvest time of God. Are our eyes like owlets hooting Fashioned only for the night! Is one gleam from heaven shooti3| Glare sufficient for our sight? God is angry, tho' forbearing, Nations buried in the past Paid oblivion's debt, for wearing Freedom only as a mask.
And that past again is waiting, With its pall foi crime and sham* To enguli anotker nation, Famous only in. its name.' Freedom sweetly smiles -wherever
Deep this question, is instilled— Winter will not last foi ever — Is the ground for harvest tilled?
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Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 69
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264LINES ON LABOUR. Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 69
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