THE -EMPIRE BUILDERS
And not where navies churn the, foam, Noi> called to, fields'of. 'fierce. surpfiSo; In many. a country- /cottage^homo- • The Empire-builder lives' and dies : Or through the rqaring 'street; he', gpfes, ■A> lean and weary City" sldv^ ; ' :' ' The conqueror of; a* iHpusandifoeS-r-,, • Who -Walks,-, unheeded, to., his; gra via, Leaders unknown, of : hopes • forlorn, iGo past us inutile, daily^mart, . With many a slia'dowycr'rtwri-of'thom j And *matiy a, ; kingly bioken . heart. —Alfred .Nbyes, m• "Forty Singihg'Sea- ; rilen and; Other Poem's."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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81THE-EMPIRE BUILDERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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