THE COMING MAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11635, 16 March 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE COMING MAN.

BT B. W. WILOOX. 0 not for the great departed Who framed oar country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted Who died in freedom's cause, And not lor some living hero To whom all bend tba knee My mase would raise her song of praise Bat for the man to be. For oat of the strife which woman Is passing through to-day A man that is mere than human Shall yet be born, I «ay. A man in whesa pnre spirit; No dross of self will lark ; - A man who is strong to cope with wrong, A man who is pro ad to work, A man with hope undaunted, A man with God-like power, Shall come when he most' is wanted, Shall come at the needed hoar. He gb&U silence the din and clamour Of clan disputing with clan, And toil's long fight with purse-proud might Shall triumph through this man. 1 know be is coming, coming, To holp. to guide, to save, Thongh I hear no martial dramming And see no flags that wave. ( Bat the great soul-travail of woman. And the bold, free thought unfurled, An heralds that say he is on the way — The coming man of the world. Monrn not for vanished agCH, With their great heroic men, Who dwell in history's pages, And live in the poet's pen. For the grandest times are before as, And the world is y«t to see That noblest worth of this old Earth In the mai (and woman) that are to be.