THE NOBLEST BUILDER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 101

THE NOBLEST BUILDER.

Th: noblest builder: who is he That bears this n«rk of high degree? ■ Not he who rears with iron and ■ stone The grandest tempi j ever known, And crowns it with a lofty spire That glitters in the sunset's fire. It is not he whose master hand Can make the senseless marble stand . A bright creation, as if mind And will and.- power were there enshrined While all the world in rapttiro gaze v And preans sing of highest praise. Nor is it be, the bard sublime, Who deftly, builds the lofty rhyme, "Who holds the wand of rhythmic power, And in some bright propitious hour O'er all the wide world sends -along The music" of "his ~matchtess song. ; Think you 'tis he who with the sword; To battle lends a conquering horde, And, o'er the bodies of the slain, With triumph flushed begins the reign Of kingly power, and plans alone The architecture of a throne? Ah,. nay: 'tis he who forms seine plan To elevate his fellow-man, And by ennobling act and thought A blessing for the race has wrought. Him .candid truth shall ever call The noblest builder cf them all. —Shambock.