POOR BLINDED PIGMIES!
l'oor blinded pigmies, go yom grovellin" ways ' Immortal spirts = uig tluougli all the days How utterly m vain. Yp have not heaid* Tho majesty ot one hero.c word bevelling with spirit splendour. Can ye hear The thunderstorms that shake the " seventh sphere? Ye who have cmcified through every age Your God-like leaders, thumb the "time-worn
Pile spirits who wrie with you long ngoue — Ye cannot comprehend thmu. Bent and worn They pas;cd before you while they dwelt
be'ow, Laden with wild, immeasurable woe; And poanug on the wondrous wings of Love, Far on for cvermoie their spirits move. Pouring immortal strums ye may not hear. Pocr gro\ elhng pigmies' God i = very near, 'Hie deathless might of marvellous Majesty. Alas' ye cam.ot feel 1 ye cannot «cc! Go bu.v and sell' 'Ihe spirit should posses'? The hills of heaven and all then- loveliness. —Charles Oscar Palmer. Brentvvood Farm, June 13, 1902.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 63
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154POOR BLINDED PIGMIES! Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 63
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