New Zealand Serfs.
f This is how Arthur Desmond apo3trophtS3S the noble workers ' of New Zealand in a poem contributed to the Sydney Bulletin : The rich they go in garments fine, In pleasure's path to rotm, And with the gold your smews earn They build each marble home. They've leisure and they've luxury, They've plenty for their share, And silken robes resplendent bright Bedeck their maidens fair. While yours— they drudge in sordid homes, Although ye are the strong ; And so you're tamely shorn like sheepHow long, 0 Lord, hiw -oust?
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 607, 16 August 1890, Page 4
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91New Zealand Serfs. Observer, Volume X, Issue 607, 16 August 1890, Page 4
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