AND THE PROMISE

And instead, in tfae backward vista of that face» I saw tfae joy of free open life under the sun ;

The green snn-delighting earth and rolling sea I saw,

The free suffîcing life — ^sweet comradeship, few needs and common pleasures — the needless endless burdens ail cast aside,

Nût as a sentimental vision, but as a fact and a neces- 8ity existing, I saw

In tfae backward vista of that face.

Stronger than ail combinations of Capital, wiser than ail the Committees représentative of Labour, the simple need and hunger of the human heart.

Nothing more is needed.

AU the books of political eoonomy ever written, ail the proved impossibilities, are of no account.

The smoke-blackened walls and tall chimneys duly crumble and convey themselves away ;

The falsehood of a gorged and satiated sodety curls and shrivels together like a withered leaf ,

Before the forces which lie dormant in the pale and wistful face of a little child.^