Wanted, a Leader of Men.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6043, 23 February 1891, Page 4

Wanted, a Leader of Men.

; ;%..5"'V-'-Pj.WiMmHMiiySßalO Wanted a light in the darkness, a leader to! >. love and obey, A guide through »he mist and Bhadows, that ■ • •;,./ darken, endanger the way; From cottage and crowded city; from moun- -, tain, valley, and fen, Comer the cryofa nations travail, "Wanted, y a leader of men": r A leader: unblinded by passion, with feelings - unbittered by hate, Not all for the voice of the people, nor all for _ * the strength of the State; A heart with a mind to govern, a mind with >V a heart to control; Noi always forgetting the body, nor ever for*~X getting the soul. Not. a man of one party or faction, bat a j "zealouß uniter of creeds'; JL . ■ ■ \ Not an engine of wordy vapour, but a doer of | .' worthy deedai.. - Not a speaker <^f veiled sedition, but a guide :i lor the struggling.mass, Who crowd through the valley of labour, ...-. crying "Boom for the millions to pasp." A leader grave and earnest, like sbme pa triarch JY- seer of old. ■'■■••* aa; .'_ .-, Who saw with viaions prophetic the scroll of i the'future unrolled, .-*. -. &.: And h?ard-ih his heart a message like love to y the ears of a bride, v.: • ••• :'-'^A And felt in his sours aspiring the Gcd-given A 'wisdom'to guide:-' - To gather- the lost that arr scatte.ed,: arid : ipe'ak with no faltering voice, To oounserour hearts in sorrow, and joy with nus-when we rejoice; '. ' s y Not seeking with blind adoration the praise i of idolatrous fame,: ■ s v. Nflic making the goal ot- ambition thel bribe of a gilded name; Put to guide ip a great re-Tinion, to lead iq V 1

• righteous cause. -■ : Z « Distributing mero^ with justice, not ruling by rigou.r of laws. ' : Not bidding the poor to rebellion, nor teaching the rich how to give. But telling a sorrowing nation how nobler I and better to live. New faith *0r the weak and faltering, new „ paths for the struggling to «re^ $ jtfew /strength for the strong -^ at e fallen, new life for th" nopes that were dead ; New pride for the proud ones vanquished, the great ones we oannot reoall, And the-* heart of our country's honor, unbroken, unblemished through aU. 1.1 _-**-.l II I I —Ml—-.-.—— |