CURRENT VERSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 17

CURRENT VERSE.

THE SIN. " - For right is right, etnce God is God, And right the day must win; To donht would be disloyalty, To Jalter would bo sin. —F. TV. FABER. DONT WORRY. As this world you travel tlrough This advice 1 give to you— ■Never fret aud never worry. Though you may have mnch to <lo,* There's no need to fret awl fight. Stand with face serene and bright, Never fret and never worry, God's in heaven, and all is right. —MILLER LANG. " SO GOES THE ROUND." War begets Poverty, Poverty peace— Peace .begets Plenty, Then rlcnea Increase— niches bring Pride. And Pride is War's ground, i '■ War begets Poverty, 60 goes the round. —H. AC BENRUDDOCKE. HOT WITH VAIN TEARS. Not with vain tears, when we're beyond ' the eira, , We'll beat on tie substantial doors, nor I 'tread Thoee du»ty highroads of tile aimless ' . dead J Plaintive for EartSi; tint rather tarn ana ran . Down «ojne dose-covered by-way of the air, Some lew eweet yalley between wind s and wind, Stoop under faint gleams, thread "the ■bftdowe, m<4 r Some whimpering gkost-forgetten nook ami c there r Sp rsS? } n T 5 - ■^β*" 36 ou ? §teraai ijay; ' Tbiok «tth jn each, immediate); wise, 1 Leara all we lacked before; hear, know, V and say . Wliat this tumultuous body new denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands > flway; Avtstet w leaser Wisied our eyes,

RUMANIA'S ATTITUDE, : *"i ■ ■.. . •; WHY SHE IS NETJTRAI. DREAD OF RUSSIAN DOMINATION. The "Giornale d'ltalia" publishes an instructive interview with M. MarghiloznsMn, the chief of the Germanophile paity in Rumania. M. Marghilomann began by declaring that he was less Germanophile than he was a Russophobe. "I am anti-Rus-sian," lie said, "because I am convinced thai Bussia is our worst enemy. I love Trance, but France is 2,000 kilometrc3 distant, whereas we are next-door neighbours to the Russians. '•' When M. Sazenoff said in the Duma last year, 'To-day the time has arrived for the realisation of the dream of Peter the Great,' I said to myself, ' That means the end for us. With the Russians at Constantinople, Rumanians will be in the greatest danger.' "Russia is covetous of complete dominion over the Black Sea and the Bosphorus. Russia sells cereals and petrol as we do, and therefore our interests are antagonistic. If she succeeded in closing the mouth of the D/anube, Austria would be at her mercy, and so should we, because we have practically no railways, all our commerce being on the Danube and on the sea. To-day I feel satisfied that Russia will never get Constantinople, and that it will remain in the hande of the Turks. "The policy of 51. Bratiano Teminds mc of a little dbg, which barks at ft locomotive in the belief that it can stop it —we are the little dog. the locomotive is Germany. It is true that M. Bratiano is now on excellent terms with the Russians, and impatiently awaits-the opportunity to do something. But when will that opportunity present itself? " I repeat what I affirmed eight months ago, that Rumania will remain neutral. Certainly, M. Bratiano would take action if the signal were to be given, but I believe that that 'signal' will never be given because the war will finisli suddenly with a general collapse before long, and we shall never be afforded the opportunity to intervene. " I am dissatisfied with the policy of M. Bratiano. It has disgusted everybody. Yesterday, Russia, when she was in the Carpathians, offered us vast concessions if we would join her. We lost the opportunity by insisting upon the Banat. where there are more Serbians than there are Rumanians. "Docs anyone seriously think that Germany, victorious, wiil | say to us. 'Come with us, and enjoy the fruits of , victory; you, who have failed to maintain your treaty of alliance with us. and have shown yourselves ready to unite with our enemies"? Dons anyone think that the Quadruple Entente, victorious, will give U3 Transylvania, we j who have plainly shown thai we would side against them in case of their dcr feat? "We haro revealed our play to the whole world, with the result that noil bedy trusts us any more, and intervention therefore would be useless to us. How can tho world have fai£h in us a after thp 'words nf a brother of M. Brafiano to the Minister of one of the c Ontral Empires: "If you conquer, we 4: will be with you?'"