EMANCIPATION.
“Win be afraid of death as though your life were breath? D-ath but anoints your eyes xxith • lax, ()h glad surprise ! Why should you be forlorn? Death only husks the corn. Why should you fear to meet the thresher of the w heat ? Is sleep a thing to dread? Vet sleeping you are dead Till you awake and riv, here, or beyond the skies. Why should it be a wrench to leave xour wooden bench? Why not xxith happy shout run home when school is out? The dear ones left behind! O foolish one and blind, A day and you xx ill meet —A night and you xxill greet. This is the death of Death, to breathe away a breath And know the end of strife, and taste the deathless life, \nd iov xvithout a fear, and smile without a tear; And work, nor care to rest, and find the last the best.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/WHIRIB19181218.2.14
Bibliographic details
White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 282, 18 December 1918, Page 6
Word Count
154EMANCIPATION. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 282, 18 December 1918, Page 6
Using This Item
Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand is the copyright owner for White Ribbon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this journal for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. This journal is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this journal, please refer to the Copyright guide