Poem: ‘Remember!’

    Surely we will remember. When the time

    Of reparation comes, as come it must,

    We will remember many an age and clime,

    Many a life down-trodden in the dust;

    The Negroes bent and broken by the whip,

    The Chinese children bought and sold in shame,

    The white girl held in prostitution’s grip,

    The white man free in nothing but in name.

    We will remember those who died in vain

    To quench a nation’s blood-thirst; all the scorn,

    Indignities and insults that we bore.

    And you, our masters, you, our curse and bane,

    Shall bear a tithe of what we slaves have borne

    Ere gladly you forget for evermore.

F. J. Webb