FOR YOUNG MEN.
"I mad© them lay their hands m mine. and swear To reverence the King, as if he were ■Their, conscience, andi their conscienro as their King, To break,,, the. heathen andl uphold the ... 'Christ^, ' : '.' To ride abroad redressing human • .;.. ; wrongs i .-,... To speak no slander, no, nor listen, to • -it, -■ . . . To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead] sweet lives m purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her. And' worship Her by years of noble . deeds,. Until they won her; for indeed I know Of no .more . subtle master under Ifeiiyen
..Than is the maiden passion ior a maM, Not only to keep down the fyvse m man, But to teach high thoughts, and' amiable words ■ And courtliness, and desire oi fame, And love the truth, and! all thai makes a man." —Tennyson,
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 1 February 1928, Page 15
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142FOR YOUNG MEN. Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 1 February 1928, Page 15
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