THE LEGEND OF EVIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XLI, Issue 3344, 2 December 1893, Page 4

THE LEGEND OF EVIL.

■nr XiiliWWiu ~i".isJ ' J\|( ; ifcrlThis'itf the sorrowfulSatoryr-' iiiU iTold whdtf the t twilieht fai is, ut Andi the monkeys iwalk together, 1,. Holding each other's,tails. , ■ fathers lived'in-the'foiest, •;:! "ffoolishipeople were they: They went down -to, the cornland ; f ; To teach the farmers to play;.; , fathers frisked in the<milletj >■"-. • ' ' ' 'Our fathers gkjpped in' the"wheat, 7. f Our fathershunpin.tbe,branches, Our; fathers 'danced'to' the street. ... tercible farmers, ~ : u ;}; ""' Nothing (if, pjay they, knew; Ouly fathers, , pHr/And set them.to,labour, too l:.- 11 ; >'• " Set them to work ori the cornland, ; i'l uWith' ploughs andiisidkles'and iflailsj them in,mud-wallefl j f. ,i. 4nd cut offiheir beautiful, i ;,; ! j "Now wa can watch our fathers, • : Sullen and bowed and old, ~Stooping.over the millet, :y, }'/' : Stirring the silly' mould. f , " Driving a foolish-furrow, Mending, amuddy yoke j' jJ! o;>[ )\ Slpepi n *j n ihud : wail led prison s ? * Steeping their tbod in Bihoke.< ; * s V\Ve m r ayi not' speak' to our fathers, For if the farmers- knew ; ; .jThey wculd come jupJo; the forest -;t(• ■■(.;! "And set. labour, .too," , This is the horribleatory ,Told ; as thejtwilightjails, ~r : ; j As'the 'mdnkeySiWalli together ! "/ Holding: each ottifer's tails.' '/■ K"i ,ri in;; : . ..Euidyard Kipling,