SOCIAL PICTURES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 714, 15 February 1892, Page 1

SOCIAL PICTURES.

■ -♦— . Look here upon'this picture, and on tlir, Haxibi. TiiKKEglnoraj where'er we turn our eyes Tho case of him'who lives aud dies • In (lie vile struggle tor mero bread— Of hirti wlm dared not lif-. his head i To speak '.he truth that is life's life,' Lest it should cost himself and wife, And little ones their daily want: For myi iads and myriads must Restrain the god illurninM heart liYora following out a godlike part, J.e-t haply they and theirs should jJie Of famine underneath God's sky,'. Aud in God's world tfcit riinrteth oVr. With plenteousuess for evermore. ; ._ r . Yet while the bouts who thus ronßt'tfiw Before Fate's sordid earth-bent brtfw Miiy toil forever, yef despair Of allhut doubtful daily fare, • The few, in.part thro' their dire bU'MI,. Abound in all things to excess. Eevolliug picture! Like wild beasls' Men gather at the worldV great feasts, •And whether thro' broken law, or weras, Thro' some deep hideous natural force/ The epirit-.b'lighting fact remaius, ' That, underneath the fate that reigns In life, the myriads receive . , ' But little Irniu its rule save leave ,;, Te oariLwith,toil a scanty.!cruat'; • ||| While with a wolf's or gorgon's And wistless of the wantalltat-Brfloi . Amidst 'the moiling multitude, [' The few, beneath the- same'gyira Live ever iua riotous state,, : Aad;deem such living part of being tfreat.