"SI QUIS IMPIA MANU."
O Mother, that Thine eje-> should see. Thine ears should hear. Thy heart should fee' Tins worse than world-wide enmity, llns worse th.tn clash of earth - leagued steel — This horrent flouting of Thy name By those of Thine own trava'! bcin ; 0 Mother, the deep-seated hhamo That whelms us morn by bitter mom As still the li.ttc-ful jibe we licai, As "till the twittid lip «c i.ote, Aid m.idly ui--h v.c were but no.v To clutch the trailois by tin- f'no^t — Yea. tho' our biethren '--wrpnch the sob For pardon from their shaken Sou 1 ", And strike to awe the idiot mob Ihat watch them ?hde :nto their hoc, Ai.d wonder vpguely how such mean And miserable creeping things Had evei to their vision beeii An Heroes, Le.i-ders, \ cry Kns=; And tuin again to The", thr-n own True giaciou* Mother— eveiy -on Lra bendinp hin- beiore Thy throne So men once more know E"i;lu>j(l o-.e AI.UISY<3. Try Nimmo and Br.U" foi the l ew Albat-oss (fii<uio which is moic so.uble in phosphates than .<.i} other tuuiio on ihe market It IS 01 siA-i.Vi.d coi.d.t.oii, ai.d neifpctW drr.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2497, 22 January 1902, Page 81
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191"SI QUIS IMPIA MANU." Otago Witness, Issue 2497, 22 January 1902, Page 81
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