WORK FOR SMALL MEN.
[Contributed.] Don't hate your neighbour if his creed With your own doctrine fails to fit; The chances that you both are wrong, You know, are well-nigh infinite. Don’t fancy, ’mid a million worlds That fill the silent dome of night, The gleams of all pure truth converge . Within the focus of your sight; For this, my friend, is not the work for you ; So leave all this for smaller men to do.
Don’t hate men when their hands are hard, And patches make their garnients whole ; A man whose clothes are spick and span . May wear big patches on his Don’t hate a man because his coat . Does not conform to fasjycTTs art; tJL i A man may wear a TETri-aress And have a ragamuffin heart. This, my good friend, is not the work for you ; So leave all this for smaller men to do.
Despise not any man that lives, Alien or neighbor, near or far; Go out beneath the scornful stars, And see how very small you are. The world is large and space is high That sweeps around our little ken; But there’s no space or time to spare In which to hate our fellow men*.,--"'
And this, my friend, is not the work for you; Then leave all this for smaller men to do.
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Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 101, 12 April 1912, Page 3
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